Paolo Cappabianca is Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the Università Federico II, Naples, Italy. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Neurosurgery, before enrolling as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Vienna. Besides being a full professor in functional neurosurgery and stereotactic surgery and chairman of the Neuroendoscopy Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), he worked as an associated professor at the Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), USA. Professor Cappabianca has been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at various U.S. universities, including the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; the University of California at Los Angeles and at San Francisco; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Harvard Medical School at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston; and Univerity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has delivered the Ginde Oration in Mumbai, India, and has also lectured in Canada, Egypt, Germany, Chile, and Japan. Dr. Cappabianca is affiliated to various international societies: Società Italiana di Neurochirurgia (SINch), Associazione Italiana di Neuro-Oncologia (AINO),American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), Society of University Neurosurgeons (SUN), the Pituitary Society,European Association of Neurological Surgery (EANS), German Society of Skull Base Surgery, European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO), and Sociedad de Neurocirugia de Chile. He is an editorial board member for Neurosurgery, an international advisory board member for Acta Neurochirurgica, and senior editor of the peer-review board of World Neurosurgery.