Francesco Acerbi

Francesco Acerbi, MD PhD, is the Vice-Chair of the Neurovascular Unit and the head of the microsurgical laboratory at the Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute “C.Besta” in Milano. Dr. Acerbi’s expertise includes cerebrovascular disorders (aneurysm, AVM, cavernomas, and moyamoya disease and stroke), brain, skull base and intramedullary tumors. He is a member of the Italian Society of Neurosurgery, European Association of Neurosurgical Society and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Acerbi received his medical degree at the University of Pisa and a medical science diploma at the School of Advanced Study Sant’Anna of Pisa. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Milano and his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Milano. He completed a neurosurgical fellowship at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Free University of Brussels (Erasme Hospital), and a visiting fellowship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He took the Italian Qualification to Associate Professor in Neurosurgery in 2014 and to Full Professor in 2018. Dr. Acerbi’s research activities include the development of new surgical techniques for cerebral revascularization, anatomical studies of neurosurgical approaches, and the development of new visualization techniques during surgical approaches for oncological and vascular disease, in particular involving intraoperative fluorescence. He has received research fundings from MIUR and AIRC. He is author or coauthor of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 8 book chapters, and Guest-Editor of two special-issues of International Medical Journals (H-index 27 on Scopus).