Prof. Dr. Umberto Tarantino is an expert in orthopedics in Rome. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome in 1979. He then specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Motor Apparatus at the same University in 1982 and in Oncology at the University of Tor Vergata in 1990. Since 1992, he has been a lecturer in various courses including Traumatology, Sports Traumatology and Locomotor Apparatus Diseases at the University of Tor Vergata. He has, in addition, concretized his research in more than 200 scientific texts published in national and international journals. He has been the Head of the Outpatient Service of Skeletal Oncology at the S. Eugenio Hospital in Rome since 1990. Since 2005, he has also been the Referent of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the University Polyclinic "Tor Vergata", where he mainly deals with metabolic, infectious, neoplastic and osteoporosis osteopathies, but also the traumatology of the locomotor apparatus, sports traumatology and prosthetic surgery of the hip and knee.