Alberto Gobbi, M.D., is the founder and director of Orthopaedic Arthroscopic Surgery International (Milan, Italy). He graduated from Università degli Studi di Milano in 1983 and then continued his training to become a sports doctor and an orthopaedic surgeon specialized in arthroscopic procedures. He trained in arthroscopy in the US in the early eighties and was one of the first Italian surgeons to be elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA).
A current member of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), he has been working on the Board of the International Cartilage Repair Society for the last ten years and has recently been elected to the board of Directors of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sport Medicine (ISAKOS). He was the Scientific Program Chair of the World Cartilage Meeting organized in Miami in May 2009. His numerous publications on arthroscopic procedures and the surgical treatment of cartilage repair have appeared in several international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Gobbi has also set up a no-profit Foundation in Milan (OASI Bioresearch Foundation Gobbi NPO), whose aim is to create a network of doctors from all over the world who conduct research in biotechnologies for cartilage repair and believe in the improvement of medical knowledge as a path to world peace. During their stay in Italy, these researchers receive a scholarship thanks to an international fellowship program and then continue their mission and therapeutic service in their own countries. The Foundation collects financial support from institutions and private citizens who believe in its mission and share the same ideals.

(July, 2009)