Dr Claudio Ascani

Medical Director of Orthopedics and Traumatology Hospital CTO Rome. Head of the U.O. of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery at the CTO Hospital in Rome.

Today he is Head of the I.P. of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery at the CTO Hospital in Rome
From 2000 to 2002 he was Medical Director of Orthopedics and Traumatology UOC Orthopedics and Traumatology Civil Hospital of Velletri (Rm).
From 1999 to 2000 he was the Head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Unit of the Accredited Nursing Home at San Giuseppe in Rome.
From April 1997 to May 1998 he was Orthopedic Assistant and Traumatologist at the Clinique Emile de Vialar in Lyon (France) Orthopedic Assistant and Traumatologist of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Service of Prof. Gilles Walch of Shoulder Surgery and Prof. P.Chambat of Knee Surgery at the Clinique Emile de Vialar in Lyon (France).
For one year, in 1996, he held the position of Medical Assistant at the Clinique Chirurgicale Orthopedique e Traumatologique de l’Universite de Lyon – Hopital Lyon Sud (Lyon) (France).
For one year, in 1993, he held the position of Medical Assistant Fellowship Orthopedic Surgery Harvard Medical School Spine Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Pediatric Orthopedic, Bone Tumors at Harvard Medical School Children’s Hospital, Boston Massachussetes (U.S.A.).
He has participated in major national and international courses and conferences as a speaker. He is an ordinary member of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery SECEC / ESSE, of the Italian Society of Arthroscopy SIA, of the Italian Society of Vertebral Pathologies GIS.
He is the author of more than 50 publications in national and international journals, on topics of Spinal Pathology, Shoulder Pathology, Elbow Pathology, Knee Pathology, Neoplastic Skeleton Pathology, Traumatology and Pediatric Orthopedics, he is author of 2 chapters on Topics of Vertebral Pathology.