Journal of Pain & Relief
Open Access

Editor-in-Chief
Angelo Lavano
Professor of Neurosurgery
Head of the Neurosurgical Department 
"Magna Graecia" University
Catanzaro
Italy

Biography

Biography
• Medicine and Surgery Graduate, 2 Degree Faculty of Medicine and Surgery - University of Naples, 1981
• Specialization in Neurosurgery, 2 Degree Faculty of Medicine and Surgery - University of Naples, 1986
• Specialization in Endocrinology, 1 Degree Faculty of Medicine and Surgery - University of Naples, 1989
• Specialization in Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery - University of Catanzaro, 1995

Degree

Academic degree:
• Full Professor of Neurosurgey, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Catanzaro, University “ Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro, from 2001 to today
Health degree:
Chief of Neurosurgical Department/Functional and Stereaotactic Neurosurgery Center, “Policlinico Universitario of Germaneto” – “Tommaso Campanella “ Fondation, Catanzaro from 2007 to today
Didactic activity
1994/2015: Teaching of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical School, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Catanzaro/ University Federico II of Naples
2007/2015: Teaching of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Catanzaro
2007/2015: Teaching of Neurosurgery, Neurological School, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Catanzaro
2002/2015: Teaching of Neurosurgery, Oncology School, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Catanzaro
2002/2015: Teaching of Neurosurgery, Anaesthesia School, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Catanzaro
Scientific activity – Publications:
Author of 304 publications (75 publications in extenso on national and international scientific journals), 9 books, 11 book chapters, 2 videotapes and 2 CD-ROM
Coordination initiatives in scientific field:
In national field:
Scientific Secretary of the XLVIII Congress of the Italian Society of Neurosurgery, Copanello of Staletti, Italy, September 12-15th 1999
In international field
Scientific Secretary of the International Symposium on "The failures of the surgical treatment of the degenerative vertebral pathology”, Copanello of Staletti, Italy, July 17-19th 1997

Scientific . Secretary of the International Symposium of Functional Neurosurgery ”Neuromodulation and its fields of application”, Copanello of Staletti, Italy, July 12th 2002
Scientific Board of the15th Interim Meeting of Word Federation Neurosurgical Society, Rome, Italy, 8-12 September 2015
Scientific society
Past-President of Section of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery of Italian Society of Neurosurgery (SINch)
Member of Italian Chapter of International Neuromodulation Society (INS); Board member of Italian Society of Neurosurgery (SINch)
Member of the Scientific Committee of Associazione Italiana Sindromi Neurodegenerative da Accumulo di Ferro (AISNAF)
Member of Italian Society of Neurooncology
Member of Italian Study Association of the Pain
Member of European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Member of Movement Disorder Society

Research Interest

Treatment of peripheral chronic benign pain with Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS)
Neuronavigation Systems and Stereotactic "frame-based” Systems in the implant of deeph intracerebral electrodes
Surgical treatment of central neuropathic pain and complicated-advanced Parkinson Disease with Motor Cortex Stimulation (MCS)
Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain and Movements Disorders
Utility of the Intracranial Pressure Lumbar Monitoring in the Chronic Daily Headache Transforamenal Sacral Nerve Stimulation (TSNS) in isolated pelvic pain syndrome and bladder dysfunctions
Neurosurgical treatment of painful nerve entrapment syndromes