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Pietro Ruggieri

Full Professor

Telefono: +39 3923106693

Phone lab: +39 0498213372

E-mail: pietro.ruggieri@unipd.it

Education:

Medical Degree  12-16-1982 with 110/110 cum laude.
Board of Orthopedics 07-13-1987 with 70/70 cum laude.
Ph.D. in Oncology 09-01-1991.

University scholarship Grants and Awards

  • Ministry of  Public Instruction (at University of Bologna) from 1982 to 1987;
  • C.N.R.(Italy)/N.C.I.(U.S.A.) grant in 1987;
  • Arienti Award( Institute Gaetano Pini- Milano)  1992;
  • EMSOS Award for best lecture May 2008, Warsaw: “Resection of sacral chordoma: an analysis of 56 cases from the Istituto Rizzoli  and presentation of a new modified technique”
  • EFORT Award for best lecture June 2011, Copenhagen: “Teleangiectatic Osteosarcoma”.
  • SIOT Award 2011, Rimini: “Distal femur reconstruction with modular prostheses: analysis of survival of implants”.
  • EFORT Award for the Best paper June 2012, Berlin with the paper: “Post radiation sarcoma: A single institutional experience on 52 cases”.
  • Erwin Morscher Award 2014  by EFORT Society, with  the Honorary Lecture in London EFORT 2014, June 5th: “Progresses of Musculoskeletal Oncology In the last decades and future perspectives”.
  • EFORT Award for the Best Poster, June 2016 Genève: “Total Humeral Prosthetic Reconstruction for Bone Tumors. A Report of 14 Cases”
  • Visiting Professor at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota USA, from 7th September to 13th September 2015 for Lectures, Lessons, Discussion of Clinical cases, a tour of Research Laboratories and Meeting with Chairman and Directors
  • Visiting Professor at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of University of Hong Kong from 3rd to 8th November 2016 for Lectures, Lessons, Discussion of Clinical cases, a tour of Research Laboratories and Meeting with Chairman and Directors
  • Visiting Professor for University of South Florida at the Musculoskeletal Oncology Review Course (2008 – 2019).
  • Visiting Professor for UOTBIH (Association of Orthopedists and Traumatologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina) of Sarajevo (2019).

Stages and fellowships

  • 1987  University of Florida, Gainesville;
  • 1987 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York;
  • 1987 Hospital for Special Surgery, New York;
  • 1992 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, M.N.;
  • 1993 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, M.N.;
  • 1994  Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano;
  • 1994 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, M.N.;
  • 1995 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, M.N.;
  • 1996 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, M.N.

Positions:

Surgical Activity:more than 4.000 surgical procedures performed in orthopedics, with special regard to the field of musculoskeletal oncology.

  • From 2/1/1989 to 10/1/2001 Researcher at University of Bologna, Dept. Of Orthopedics, working as staff surgeon at the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. 
  • From 10/1/2001 to November 2005 Confirmed Researcher at the University of Bologna, Department of Orthopedics.
  • From June 2004 to October 2015 Head of Prosthetic Reconstructive Surgery in Musculoskeletal Oncology, University of Bologna, Istituto Rizzoli.
  • From November 2005 to October 2015 Professor of Orthopaedics.    
  • From May 2011 to November 2012 acting  Director of IV Department of Orthopaedics, University of Bologna, Istituto Rizzoli.
  • From November 2012 to November 2013 Head of Prosthetic Reconstructive Surgery in Musculoskeletal Oncology, University of Bologna, Istituto Rizzoli, 3rd Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Clinic.
  • Since October 1st 2015 Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology at the University of Padova.
  • Since 1st October 2016 Director of Residency Program - Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Padova.
  • Since 16th January 2017 Director of the Scientific Center for Research of Musculoskeletal Tumors "Mario Mercuri" at the Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology of University of Padova.
  • Since February 2020, member of Patents Committee and Spin-Off Committee of University of Padova.
  • Since June 2020, Coordinator of the Department of Reconstructive Surgery at University Hospital of Padova. Since June 2023, Coordinator of the Department of Musculoskeletal Diseases at University Hospital of Padova.
  • Since October 2020, member of the Board of Directors of University of Padova.

Main fields or research: Musculoskeletal Oncology, Reconstructive Surgery, Prostheses in Musculoskeletal Oncology

Publications: Author of more than 1.000 scientific papers on National or International Journals, over 450 of these on PubMed, Citation Hirsch Index 76, I 10-Index of 307.

Congresses and Meetings: He has been speaker, lecturer or moderator in more than 900 national or international congresses, or scientific meetings

Associate Editor for the following Journals: EFORT Open Reviews, Injury, JBJS, CORR

Member of the SIOT (National Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology), ISG (Italian Sarcoma Group), CIOSM (Italian Club of Musculoskeletal Oncology), EMSOS (European Musculoskeletal Oncology Society), EFORT (European Federation of Orthopedics and Traumatology), CTOS (Connective Tissue Oncology Society), EBJIS (European Bone and Join Infection Society), SICOT (Société International de Chirurgie Ortopédique et Traumatologie), International Affiliate Member of the AAOS (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery), ISTA (International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty), ISS (International Skeletal Society), MSTS (Musculoskeletal Tumor Society).

President of EFORT. Since May 2018, member of EFORT Board and EFORT Ethics Committee. Since 2019, Editor in Chief dell’EOTEP (European Orthopaedics & Traumatology Education Platform) di EFFORT.

Past President of EMSOS and ISOLS.

President of CIOSM. Vice President of SERTOT (Società Emiliano-Romagnola Triveneta di Ortopedia e Traumatologia). Member of the CIO (Italian Club of Osteosynthesis) Board.

Since 2024, Member of Long-Range Finance and Limb Reconstruction Committees of SICOT.

Since October 2016, member of MSTS (Musculoskeletal Tumor Society) GEBM Committee. Chair of 2020/2021 Specialty Day of MSTS.

  1. PALA, E.; TROVARELLI, G.; CERCHIARO, MC; RUGGIERI, P.
    Soft Tissue Sarcoma in Contact with Bone: Is Bone Resection Indicated?
    H. Özger et al. (eds.), Diagnosis and Treatment of Soft Tissue Tumors Springer; 2025; doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77061-6_50
  2. TROVARELLI, G.; RIZZO, A.; ZINNARELLO, DF; CERCHIARO, MC; ANGELINI, A.; PALA, E.; RUGGIERI, P.
    Modern Treatment of Skeletal Metastases: Multidisciplinarity and the Concept of Oligometastasis in the Recent Literature
    Current Oncology; 2025; doi: 10.3390/curroncol32040226
  3. RAY, GS; WERTH, P.; ALEXANDER, JH; EWARD, WC.; BERNTHAL, NM; JEYS, LM; FUNOVICS, P.; WINDHAGER, R.; TEMPLE, HT; LOZANO-CALDERON, S.; AVEDIAN, RS; JUTTE, PC; GHERT, M.; RUGGIERI, P.; HENDERSON, ER
    Surgical Site Infection in Patients Managed with an Endoprosthesis for the Treatment of Cancer. Evaluation of Patient, Disease, and Index Surgical Factors
    JBJS; 2023; doi: 10.2106/JBJS.22.01376
  4. KOTRYCH, D.; ANGELINI, A.; BOHATYREWICZ, A.; RUGGIERI, P.
    3D printing for patient-specific implants in musculoskeletal oncology
    EFORT Open Reviews; 2023; doi: 10.1530/EOR-23-0066
  5. TROVARELLI, G.; PALA, E.; ANGELINI, A.; RUGGIERI, P.
    A systematic review of multicentric giant cell tumour with the presentation of three cases at long-term follow-up
    Bone Joint J.; 2022; doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.104B12.BJJ-2022-0401.R1
  6. RUGGIERI P.; ANGELINI A.
    CORR Insights®: Feasibility of a Wireless Implantable Multi-electrode System for High-bandwidth Prosthetic Interfacing: Animal and Cadaver Study
    CORR Insights; 2022; doi: 10.1097/CORR.0000000000002213
  7. RUGGIERI P.; ANGELINI A.
    Surgery of Pelvic Bone Tumors
    Springer; 2021; ISBN: 978-3-030-77007-5
  8. RUGGIERI P.; TROVARELLI A.; ANGELINI A.; PALA E.; BERIZZI A.; DONATO D.
    COVID-19 strategy in organizing and planning orthopedic surgery in a major orthopedic referral center in an area of Italy severely affected by the pandemic: experience of the Department of Orthopedics, University of Padova
    JOSR; 2020; doi: 10.1186/s13018-020-01740-4
  9. TROVARELLI G., CAPPELLARI A., ANGELINI A., PALA E., RUGGIERI P.
    What Is the Survival and Function of Modular Reverse Total Shoulder Prostheses in Patients Undergoing Tumor Resections in Whom an Innervated Deltoid Muscle Can Be Preserved?
    Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®; 2019; doi: 10.1097/CORR.0000000000000899
  10. ANGELINI, A; TROVARELLI, G; BERIZZI, A; PALA, E; BREDA, A; RUGGIERI, P
    Three-dimension-printed custom-made prosthetic reconstructions: from revision surgery to oncologic reconstructions
    INT. ORTH.; 2019; doi: 10.1007/s00264-018-4232-0