Luigi Zagra

Luigi Zagra is the Head of the Hip Department at IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute, Milan, Italy and Adjunct Professor at Università degli Studi of Milan.

He is President of the Società Italiana dell’Anca (Italian Hip Society) and Past President of the European Hip Society (EHS). Vice Chairman of the Educational Committee of EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) responsible for Orthopaedics, Member of the Ethic Committee of EFORT, and Co-opted Member of the Executive Committee of EFORT.

Member of the International Hip Society (IHS) and Honorary Member of AE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Endoprothetik, the German Arthroplasty Society). Member of the Scientific Committee of EHS.

He was Director of  ROLP (Regional Arthroplasty Registry of Lombardia) and he is Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Arthroplasty Registry (RIAP). He was Member as External Expert of the Working Group of the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) on the metal-on-metal hip implants of the European Commission.

Mainly focused in hip surgery including complex primary, revision (25% of cases), conservative surgery, osteotomies and pediatric hip diseases and knee arthroplasty.

Milan, January 2016