Pierluigi Tos is Director of the Department of Hand Surgery and Microsurgery of the Orthopaedic Institute Gaetano Pini-CTO in Milan, Italy. Is specialised in both Orthopaedic and Plastic/Reconstructive surgery with a PhD in Neuroscience. He has a special interest in microsurgery and research on nerve regeneration, and education. Former president of the Italian Society for Microsurgery and the current President of the European Federation for Microsurgery is in charge for the Education committee of these societies. Chair of the Hand Trauma Committee and council member of FESSH from 2017 to 2023, now responsible for the Micro&Hand subgroup inside the FESSH. He is scientifically responsible for the microsurgery advanced diploma of the Italian Society for Microsurgery (SIM) and Surgery of the Hand (SICM). He has 151 publications in Medline, 4 books, 40 book chapters. Experimental research area: nerve repair and regeneration, teaching methodology in microsurgery. President of the Italian Group of Microsurgery and Limbs Reconstruction of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics, Contract Professor of the University of Milan School of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, European Delegate for the Italian Society for Microsurgery at the EFSM President of the Italian Editorial Committee of the Italian Society for Hand Surgery, Deputy Director and Scientific Board of the Italian Journal of Hand Surgery (Rivista Italiana di Chirurgia della Mano) - the official journal of SICM - Italian Society