Carmine Mottolese Editor

Carmine Mottolese was born in Naples and attended the Medical Faculty of Medicine Federico II In this town. He graduated with 110/110 cum laude in 1977; admitted to the Neurosurgery residency program in the same year he obtained his qualification in 1981. He then moved to Lyon as Foreign Resident in the service of Neurosurgery of the Civil Hospital, directed by the Pr. Claude Lapras. In July 1985 he was appointed senior neurosurgeon in the Neurosurgical Service of the “Pierre Wertheimer “Hospital, where he became Head of the Pediatric Service in 2000 (until 2021).

Since 2000 he has collaborated with the Marc Jeannerot Neurocognitive Institute of Lyon working on the “Functional mapping of the cerebellum”. He still holds a position in the same Institute as an associate researcher, and collaborates with the Dept. of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Hopital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon.

He was founder member of the French Pediatric Neurosurgical Society,

President of the French Pediatric Neurosurgical Society and

Commendator of the Palmes Academic of the Minister of National Education.