Biography:

Tiziana Greggi is the Head of the Department of Spinal Deformity Surgery at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute. Her main field of interest is the study and treatment of spinal deformities. She has published more than 200 scientific papers: with more than 1200 citations. She was the coordinator in charge of the research project titled Clinical and diagnostic course for patients affected by Prader Willi Syndrome, promoted by the Italian Istituto Superiore di Sanita (Italian Health Institute)-National Centre for Rare Diseases, in cooperation with the Office for Rare Diseases (NIH-National Institutes of Health, USA) within the main project line 2006 Rare Diseases. She was the President of the XXXVI National Meeting of Spine Surgery and Scoliosis (GIS) in 2013. Every year she is the director of different scientific courses about Deformity Surgery at Rizzoli Institute. She has taken part in more than 60 international conferences as faculty