Nicola Maffulli MD, MS, PhD, FRCP, FRCS(Orth), FFSEM

Personal information

Name: Nicola Maffulli
Address: Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno
Telephone Number: Italy Tel +39 320 11 36 247
E-Mail: nmaffulli@unisa.it
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 11 of April 1959

Work experiences

• Full Professor of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Salerno School of Medicine and Surgery, Salerno, Italy
• Honorary Professor of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen Mary University of London Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, England
• Lead, Foot and Ankle Surgery Services, London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games
• Special clinical interests:
  • Knee Surgery in athletes
  • Foot and Ankle Surgery in athletes
  • Sports Trauma
  • Degenerative diseases of joints in young athletes

Education

• 1983 Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples, 1983 'Summa Cum Laude'
• PhD (Doctor of Philosophy, University of London) in 1992
• MS (Master of Surgery, University of London) in 1994
• MD (Doctor of Medicine, University of Aberdeen) in 1998.

Prof Maffulli was the first non-British professor to be awarded the FRCS(Orth) (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Orthopaedics). He also obtained the Diploma in Sports Medicine from the Society of Apothecaries and the Scottish Royal Colleges Joint Board respectively in Sports Medicine in London in 1990 and Edinburgh in 1991. In 2012, he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.

Prof Maffulli has taught across Europe and in the United States, and has been made an Honorary Fellow of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, a Member of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Association.

Languages: Italian, English, French and Spanish.

Areas of interest and research

• Sports traumatology and sports medicine
• Molecular biology, tissue engineering, genetics of orthopaedic conditions and human performance
• Exercise Physiology
• Randomized clinical trials in orthopedics and traumatology
• Editorial Board Member of 12 international journals, including:
  1 Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine since 2000
  2 Arthroscopy (2000-2005)
  3 Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology 2000
  4 British Journal of Sports Medicine since 2001
  5 The Knee 2005
  6 Associate Editor: Surgeon since 2006
  7 Associate Editor: Foot and Ankle Surgery since 2008
  8 Editor in Chief: Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal
  9 Editor in Chief: Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

Further information

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
I have published 928 peer reviewed scientific articles
H index in November 2014: 82 (52nd in the Top Italian Scientists list)

Books

Prof Maffulli has published 13 books on various aspects of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Sports Traumatology, and Physiology of Sport and Exercise.