Luigi Zagra MD

Prof. Luigi Massimo Zagra is Head of the Hip Surgery Unit I of the IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute in Milan. His training at the University of Milan began with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1991 and continued with the Specialization in Orthopedics and Traumatology in 1996. He carries out his clinical career at the Galeazzi Institute first as an Assistant, later as an Aid and finally as Head of the Hip Surgery Department which he currently directs. He is an Adjunct Professor for the School of Specialization of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the University of Milan and is qualified to teach pathologies of the musculoskeletal system as a full-time Professor.

He is the author and co-author of 130 articles published in national and international journals, as well as a guest and speaker at more than 500 conferences in Italy and abroad. He boasts over 5,000 Major Orthopedic Surgery interventions, with a particular focus on Hip Surgery. During his career, Prof. Luigi Zagra becomes President of the European Hip Society, President of the Italian Hip Society, and member of the Ethics Commission of the European Federation of Orthopedics and Traumatology Societies (EFORT), with which he draws up the ethical code of surgeons European orthopedists. He is currently Chairman of the Scientific Commission of the European Hip Society and of the Italian Hip Society, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of EFORT, of the International Commission of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, and of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Arthroprosthesis Registry.

He performs daily hip and knee prosthetic surgery for the treatment of arthrosis, in particular in complex cases of congenital dysplasia, developmental and post-traumatic malformations, rheumatoid arthritis, necrosis in young patients and also in the elderly who they need special implants to prevent any possible complications. Treats numerous cases of failure of previous implants in particular wear of materials such as in metal-metal prostheses or in old generation polyethylene, painful, mobilized, unstable, infected prostheses, using tissue-friendly and non-invasive techniques and cutting-edge ceramic implants and titanium, whether or not cemented.