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Prof. Fernando ColaoMEDICO CHIRURGO

The Professor

A life devoted to orthopedics.

Three decades between clinical practice, academia and research.

Chapter I

Origins

Classical education at Liceo Machiavelli in Florence, an early calling to medicine. During university years a clear inclination for surgery and the locomotor system emerged — understood not as technical specialties but as forms of concrete restoration of bodily function and dignity.

Chapter II

The masters

University of Florence, graduating with highest honours in 1990, specialization in Orthopedics and Traumatology in 1995. Favourite pupil of Prof. Piero Dini at the CTO, trained alongside Prof. Gabriele Stringa, Prof. Palandri and Prof. Nigrisoli. The Florentine school — a tradition that fuses biomechanical rigour with the culture of the surgical gesture.

Chapter III

International experience

Training periods with Prof. Viladot in Barcelona and Prof. Bousquet in Marseille. Fellowship at the New York Memorial for Special Surgery: years of dialogue with the most advanced schools of joint replacement and reconstructive surgery in the world.

Chapter IV

Today

Adjunct Professor of Human Physiology at European University of Rome, teaching second and third year students of the Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery. Founder and President of the Scientific Committee of the Scaglietti–Dini Award. Clinical practice across Florence, Scandicci, Pietrasanta and Rome. Over one hundred major joint replacements per year.

Surgery is not learned from books alone, but from shared experience alongside one's masters.

— Prof. Fernando Colao

The information has educational value and does not replace specialist medical examination.