Dr. Marcelo Pisani
Head of the Department of Ophthalmology
Worked in Niguard's adult ophthalmology. Conducts refresher courses. Since 2016, he has been the Head of the Ophthalmological Department. Performed over 6,000 surgeries.
Dr. Dario Capitani
Head of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology
Worked at the Center for Sports Traumatology. G. Pini as a researcher and then an assistant in orthopedics and traumatology.
Orthopedic traumatologist for professional and non-professional athletes in various sports disciplines (cycling, rugby, American football, basketball, etc.).
Dr. Marco Cenzato
Head of the Department of Neurosurgery
Since 2011, he has been the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Niguarda Clinic.
He has extensive experience in all areas of cranial and spinal neurosurgery, as well as in vascular neurosurgery, in particular in the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), cavernous angiomas of the brainstem, complex intracranial aneurysms and in brain revascularization (bypass) procedures.
Dr. Enrico Eugenio Minetti
Head of Nephrology Department
Membership in associations:
Main pathologies:
Heart failure. It monitors patients with heart failure, transplant patients, transplant recipients and patients with mechanical assist systems in the circulation ("artificial hearts").
Main pathologies and methods of treatment:
Electrophysiology. The structure deals with the diagnosis and therapy of cardiac arrhythmias and is characterized primarily by interventional electrical stimulation and electrophysiology.
Main pathologies and methods of treatment:
Diagnostics and rehabilitation. Hospitalization, diagnostic and rehabilitation zones are provided here. Cardiac hospitalization mainly deals with ischemic heart disease and valvular pathologies, but, in cooperation with other structures, it deals with all cardiac pathologies — from diagnosis to the interventional phase.
The main pathologies and methods of treatment:
Dr. Giuseppe Cattafi
Head of the Department of Electrophysiology
Gained considerable experience and knowledge in the field of implantation and replacement of single-, dual-chamber and atriobiventricular pacemakers (PM) and automatic defibrillators (ICD), loop recorder implants, transcatheter radio frequency avialations, cryoablation of atrial fibrillation, electrical cardioversion. Extensive experience in the implantation of devices for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).
Dr. Salvatore Siena
Head of Oncology Department
He worked at the National Cancer Institute in Milan as a researcher, assistant and deputy head of the department of oncology, and then at the IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Milan as head of the department of bone marrow transplantation and development of oncological therapies.
He is currently Head of the Falck Oncology Department, the Department of Hematology and Oncology and the Niguarda Senser Center of the Niguarda Hospital in Milan. Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Milan.