Academic Background and Education
- 2022 – 2024: Researcher (RTD-B) in Diseases of Locomotor Apparatus Disease and Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, 麻豆传媒AV在线看 University, Pieve Emanuele (Milan, Italy)
- 2022: Scientific National Abilitation for Full Professor of Locomotor Apparatus Disease and Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine
- 2017 – 2022: Researcher (RTD-A) in Diseases of Locomotor Apparatus Disease and Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, 麻豆传媒AV在线看 University, Pieve Emanuele (Milan, Italy)
- 2018: Scientific National Abilitation for Associate Professor of Locomotor Apparatus Disease and Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine
- 2016 – 2017: Advanced Training Course in Clinical Epidemiology, 麻豆传媒AV在线看 University, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
- 2012 – 2015: PhD program in Oncology Orthopaedics, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy.
- 2010 – 2015: Resident program in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Vote: 50/50 cum laude, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy.
- 2011- 2012: Clinical and research fellow at Centre of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
- 2003 – 2009: Degree of Medicine and Surgery, Vote: 110/110 summa cum laude, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy
- 2008: Visiting research fellow at Orthopaedic Surgery Department Ferguson Laboratory for Spine Research, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Membership and Affiliations
- 2018: Visiting Fellowship of European Hip Society in The Netherlands
Awards and Honors
- 2022: Principal Investigator, call for proposals PRIN: Research projects of major National Interest, Prot. 2022YME9N3, title 鈥淒evelopment and validation of an artificial intelligence algorithm based on clinical and radiographic data for the “virtual follow-up” of patients with total hip arthroplasty鈥�. Funding agency: Italian Ministry of Health.
- 2021: Institutional Research Grant, 麻豆传媒AV在线看 Research Hospital. Title: 鈥淐onventional versus mobile application-guided follow-up after joint replacement: a randomized controlled study.鈥� Funding agency: IRCCS 麻豆传媒AV在线看 Research Hospital.
- 2020: Institutional Research Grant, Italian Ministry of Health. Title: 鈥淧reoperative diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection in patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty revision: development and validation of a machine learning algorithm.鈥� Funding agency: IRCCS 麻豆传媒AV在线看 Research Hospital
- 2019: Co-Principal Investigator, Young Researcher Change Promoting, Ricerca Finalizzata. Title: 鈥淜neE microbiota in the phYsiopathology of oSteoarthritis. Microbes could play an imporTant rOle in a presumed Non-infectious disease (KEYSTONE).鈥� Funding agency: Italian Ministry of Health.
- 2019: Institutional Research Grant, Italian Ministry of Health. Title: 鈥淎rtificial intelligence for the “virtual follow-up” of patients with primary hip and knee arthroplasty: feasibility and efficacy study.鈥� Funding agency: IRCCS 麻豆传媒AV在线看 Research Hospital
- 2018: Best Presentation Award at 13th Congress of European Hip Society, The Hague, The Netherlands, 鈥淧TX3 as a new biomarker for the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection: a single-center pilot study鈥�
- 2018: Principal Investigator, Young Researcher Change Promoting, Ricerca Finalizzata. Title: 鈥淚dentification of early predictors of hip and knee arthroplasty failure by developing an innovative software for the automated analysis of radiographic examinations.鈥� Funding agency: Italian Ministry of Health
- 2017: SIOT Level I Research Grant. Title: 鈥淧rospective observational study to assess the diagnostic ability of Long-Pentraxin 3 protein for the diagnosis of hip and knee periprosthetic joint infections.鈥� Funding agency: SIOT (Italian Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology)
- 2014: SIOT Level I Research Grant. Title: 鈥淩ole of preoperative pelvic tilt in determining the range of motion and the rate of dislocation after primary total hip replacement.鈥� Funding agency: SIOT (Italian Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology)
- 2013: Recipient of the ISAKOS Achilles Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Research Award for the paper 鈥淟ongo UG, Loppini M, Berton A, Marinozzi A, Maffulli N, Denaro V. The FIFA 11+ program is effective in preventing injuries in elite male basketball players: a cluster randomized controlled trial鈥�
- 2013: Recipient of the Certificate Of Excellence in Reviewing by Foot and Ankle Surgery journal in cooperation with the European Foot and Ankle Society.
- Clinical and translational research to improve the current techniques and to develop innovative techniques in replacement and arthroscopic hip and knee surgery; to improve the outcome of patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery; to develop follow-up protocols based on artificial intelligence for patients with hip and knee replacement; to identify new biomarkers for the diagnosis of periprosthetic infections; to develop new diagnostic tools for periprosthetic infections with the application of machine learning algorithms; to develop protocols for rapid postoperative recovery (鈥渇ast track鈥� in replacement surgery); to improve regenerative medicine strategies for degenerative diseases of hip and knee
- Author of 119 publications in international journals (Pubmed) and 19 other publications and book chapters. H-index Scopus: 34; Google Scholar: 44
- Member of Personalized Arthroplasty Society (PAS) 鈥� Education Committee and Corporate Development Committee since 2022
- Member of Education Committee (EduCom) of European Hip Society (EHS) since 2022
- Member of working groups of Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe (NORE, EFORT) since 2020
- Scientific Director 鈥� Fondazione Livio Sciutto Ricerca Biomedica in Ortopedia 鈥揙NLUS since 2018
- Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Orthopaedic since 2014
- Associate Editor for BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders since 2014
- Reviewer for Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy Journal, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, Journal of Arthroplasty, Bone and Joint journal, International Orthopaedics, Hip International, International Journal Of Orthopaedic
- Loppini M, Di Maio M, Avigni R, Leone R, Inforzato A, Grappiolo G, Mantovani A, Bottazzi B. . J Clin Med 2023 Jan 29;12(3):1055. doi: 10.3390/jcm12031055.
- Loppini M, Gambaro FM, Chiappetta K, Grappiolo G, Bianchi AM, Corino VDA. . Bioengineering (Basel) 2022 Jun 29;9(7):288. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering9070288.
- Loppini M, Pisano A, Di Maio M, La Camera F, Casana M, Grappiolo G. (2021). . International orthopaedics, vol. 45, p. 2791-2796-2796, ISSN: 0341-2695, doi:10.1007/s00264-021-05137-8.
- Grappiolo G, La Camera F, Della Rocca A, Mazziotta G, Santoro G, Loppini M. . Int Orthop 2019 Jan;43(1):77-83. doi: 10.1007/s00264-018-4122-5. Epub 2018 Sep 5.
- Loppini M, Longo UG, Ragucci P, Trenti N, Balzarini L, Grappiolo G. . J Arthroplasty. 2017 Mar;32(3):1027-1032. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2016.09.015. Epub 2016 Sep 28.