Area of expertise
Specialty
Neurosurgery
Subspecialty
Neurosurgical Oncology
Diseases
Meningioma, Glioma, Glioblastoma, Acoustic Neuroma, Ependymoma, Schwannoma, Neurologic Cancers
Procedures Performed
Craniotomy
Experience
Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan
Milan, Italy. From 2018
Director, Besta NeuroSim Center, IRCCS Foundation Neurological Institute "C.Besta"
Milan, Italy. From 2014
Director, Department of Neurosurgery, IRCCS Foundation Neurological Institute "C.Besta"
Milan, Italy. From 2012
Director of 1st Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, IRCCS Foundation Neurological Institute "C.Besta"
Milan, Italy. From 2011
Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Department of Neurosurgery, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, United States. From 2005
Education
Managerial Training in Health Care, SDA Bocconi School of Management
2006
MD, University of Milan
1988
Biography
Dr. Francesco DiMeco is a specialist in Neurosurgery. After finishing his medical studies at the University of Milan, he completed a fellowship in Oncological Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA). Dr. DiMeco is Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Milan, Director of the School of Specialization in Neurosurgery, and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Fondazione Neurological Institute C. Besta of Milan, Italy. He is also Assistant Professor (adj
Affiliations
Member, German Academy of Neurological Surgeons (GANS)
Member, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Training Committee
Member, American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (AAcNS)
Board of Neuro-oncology Section, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies
Member, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
Awards
Honorary member of the Rotary Club
2017
Brain Tumours UK foundation: 2005 Award for Translational Research Excellence, for the paper “Human, tumor-founding neurak stem cells and tumor stem cell lines for the diagnosis and therapy of glioblastomas” presented at the 2nd Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology
2005
Carlo Besta Neurological Institute Award “Excellence in Neuro-oncology”
2001
Harvey Cushing Award (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) for the contribution to the advancement of neurological sciences
2000
European Award: “1996 Beniamino Guidetti Prize” for the best scientific paper published in the Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences, 1997. Title: “Perspectives for the gene therapy of malignant gliomas by suicide gene transfer.”
1996
Publications
Dr. Francesco DiMeco has more than 220 publications