cHRISTIAN BROGNA
Full Biography
VICE PRESIDENT & MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR OF BGF
Born in Italy, Dr. Christian Brogna is an internationally recognized neurosurgeon specializing in complex brain and spinal cord tumor surgery. He grew up in Rome, Italy, where he became a Consultant Neurosurgeon in 2009.
In 2007, together with Prof. Maurizio Salvati, he performed the first successful awake surgery with brain mapping in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Rome La Sapienza, after returning from his neuro-oncology fellowship and brain mapping training with Prof. Hugues Duffau at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, France.
He trained with Prof. Uğur Türe in advanced microneurosurgical techniques for brain tumor surgery at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. In 2013, Dr. Brogna earned his PhD in Neuroscience. Since then, he has advanced the surgery of brain and spinal cord tumors, combining excellence in neuroanatomy under the mentorship of Prof. Guilherme Ribas in São Paulo, Brazil, with expertise in brain and spinal cord mapping and state-of-the-art microneurosurgical techniques.
From 2013 to 2020, he worked as a neurosurgeon with a specific interest in neuro-oncological surgery at King’s College Hospital in London, United Kingdom, and, in 2018, as a research fellow at King’s College London. He conducts research into new brain and spinal cord mapping techniques and awake surgery in neuro-oncology to enhance safety for patients undergoing brain and spinal cord tumor surgery.
Since 2022, he has been working as a leading Consultant Neurosurgeon and Neuro-oncologist at Paideia International Hospital in Rome, Italy.