Pietro Mortini

About doctor Pietro Mortini

Professor Pietro Mortini is an experienced neurosurgeon, who specializes in skull base surgery, brain and spinal cord tumors, and cerebrovascular pathology. Prof. Mortini has performed over 8,000 neurosurgical procedures and stereotactic radiosurgery procedures using the Gamma Knife.

The Department, headed by Professor Pietro Martini, is an international reference center for the treatment of pituitary tumors (non-secreting pituitary adenomas, Cushing disease, acromegaly, prolactinomas, craniopharyngiomas). The center treats more than 200 cases of pituitary tumors annually, and uses modern techniques such as:

• three-dimensional (3D) intraoperative endoscopy;
• mapping of the cerebral cortex with intraoperative monitoring;
• intraoperative ultrasound examination;
• intraoperative neurophysiology;
• cerebral portal surgery;
• minimally invasive spinal surgery;
• neuronavigation systems.

The world’s first operation to remove a brain tumor using a robotic microscope was performed in 2020, in the Department of Neurosurgery under the direction of Professor Pietro Martini.

During his career, in addition to his clinical activity, Professor Mortini has dedicated himself to research and development of new neurosurgical techniques. He has invented over 60 new microneurosurgical instruments. Since 2008, the professor has been the Director of the Specialized School of Neurosurgery of the Vita Salute San Raffaele University and the Director of various Master’s programs at the same University.

Pietro Mortini is the author of more than 230 scientific papers published in scientific journals of great international importance and is a member of the editorial board of various specialized journals. Since 2015, he has been a visiting consultant at Ibn Sina Hospital in Kuwait.

Professional experience

• 1992 – Physician assistant in the Department of Neurosurgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan (Italy);
• 1996 – Consultant neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery, Lodi Hospital, Lodi (Italy);
• 2001 – Senior Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan (Italy);
• 2002 – Director of the Skull Base Surgery Unit, Department of Neurosurgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan (Italy);
• 2005 – Consultant neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital and Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan (Italy);
• 2005 – Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, Spedali Civili Hospital, Brescia (Italy);
• 2008 – Head of the Department of Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan (Italy).

Doctor’s specialty

The main areas of clinical practice and scientific activity of Professor Martini are:

• acoustic neuroma;
• anaplastic astrocytoma;
• subarachnoid hemorrhage;
• arteriovenous malformations of the brain;
• pituitary tumors;
• craniopharyngiomas;
• ependymomas;
• degenerative diseases of the spine;
• Gamma Knife surgery;
• gliomas;
• hydrocephalus;
• schwannomas;
• skull fractures;
• stereotactic radiosurgery.