Angelo Lavano received his Medicine and Surgery Graduate from the 2° Faculty of Medicine and Surgery-University of Naples, in 1981 and finished his neurosurgical training at the Neurosurgical Department of the 2° University Hospital of Naples in 1986. He completed two years of fellowship training at Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska Sjukuset, Stockholm Sweden (Prof. Functional B. Meyerson-Functional Neurosurgery. He joined the Division of Neurosurgery of the University Hospital of Catanzaro as an Assistant Professor and currently, he is the Chief of the Neurosurgical Department/Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Division of the University Hospital of Catanzaro. Since 2011 he has been a Full Professor of Neurosurgery, at the School of Medicine and Surgery University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro and a Teacher of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery at the Neurosurgical Training School of the University of Catanzaro/ University Federico II of Naples. From 2011 to 2015 he was President of the Section of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery of the Italian Society of Neurosurgery (SINch).