Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery, Researcher
Section of Neurosurgery, Dpt. of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital
Dr Latini completed his MD degree in 2000 at the University of Bologna (Alma Mater). He completed his residency (cum laude) in Neurosurgery at the University of Ferrara, Italy and since 2013 is a specialist in Neurosurgery. He worked as a junior consultant for the division of Neurosurgery at the Dpt of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, S.Anna University Hospital of Ferrara Italy until 2014 with a specific research project on brain connectivity and patients with lesions in eloquent areas underwent awake surgery.
He was a guest fellow at the International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover (Germany) and he did a research fellowship with Dr Ali Krisht at the Arkansas Neuroscience Institute at St Vincent’s Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas (USA) in 2012. He defended his PhD thesis (Differences in the Preferential Location and Invasiveness of Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas and their Impact on Outcome) in 2021 at Uppsala University with Professor Lorenzo Bello as the opponent.
He is currently working as a senior consultant in neurosurgery, postdoc researcher, and as head of Neuro-intermediate care unit (NIMA) at the Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. His main clinical and research focus are neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, brain connectivity, and the treatment of intracranial tumors and epilepsy.
His current research projects are “Neurosurgical anatomy studies of the white matter in the human brain – post mortem fiber dissection and in vivo tractography of magnetic resonance imaging studies” and “ Significance of white matter anatomy in interpreting features and behavior of low-grade gliomas and implications for surgical treatment”, "Investigating multimodal features of intratumoral heterogeneity in gliomas" and "Cortical lesions and white-matter networks in epilepsy: surgical implications, functional consequences, and seizure outcome".
He is member of: Swedish national group on research and education on brain Tumors, the Swedish Society of Anatomy, the Swedish Society of Neurosurgery, the Swedish Society for Neuroscience (SSfN), the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), European Association of neuroOncology, the Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBMO), and Yasargil MicroNeurosurgery Academy.