Francesco Latini

Dr Latini completed his MD degree in 2000 at University of Bologna (Alma Mater). He completed his residency (cum laude) in Neurosurgery at University of Ferrara, Italy and since 2013 is specialist in Neurosurgery. He worked as junior consultant for the division of Neurosurgery at the Dpt of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, S.Anna University Hospital of Ferrara Italy until 2014 with a specific research project on brain connectivity and patients with lesions in eloquent areas underwent awake surgery.
He did a research fellowship at International Neuroscience Institute , Hannover (Germany) and a clinical research fellowship with Dr Ali Krisht at the Arkansas Neuroscience Institute at St Vincent’s Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas (USA) in 2012. He is currently working as neurosurgeon and visiting researcher at the Department of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. His main clinical and research focus are: neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, brain connectivity and the treatment of intracranial tumours.
His current research projects are “Studies of the tumor to brain interface in meningiomas – Peritumoral edema and invasiveness” and “Neurosurgical anatomy studies of the white matter in the human brain – post mortem fiber dissection and in vivo tractography of magnetic resonance imaging studies”
He is member of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), of the Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBMO), of the Swedish Society for Neuroscience (SSfN) and of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).