Filippo Adamo

About Filippo Adamo

Brain surgery Spinal cord surgery, Brain Inflammatory diseases Developing and…

Experience

1. President and CEO

   Applied Veterinary Technology Llc

   Jan 2011 — Present

   Applied Veterinary Technology LLC provides the veterinary neurological community with innovative products for surgery in companion animals.We invent surgical techniques, design implants and instruments, clinically test all procedures and materials, produce the highest quality products with state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies in USA and Canada, organize and support extensive educational programs internationally and distribute our products world wide.The first product this company embraced is the artificial disc for dogs with “disc associated wobbler syndrome”, an idea of Dr. Adamo, in 2003, when he was faculty as Clinical Assistant Professor in Neurology/Neurosurgery, at the School of Veterinary Medicine – University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since 2003, Dr. Adamo dedicated his time and his personal finances to this project. He designed the first cervical artificial disc for dogs, which biomechanically tested at the laboratory of the Human Hospital of the University of Wisconsin.These results were the pre-requisite to start a pilot clinical study to test the safety and the efficacy of this implant in dogs affected by “disc associated wobbler syndrome”. Two dogs affected by this disease were than treated with cervical disc arthroplasty and followed to 3 years after surgery. In both dogs the disc implant successfully restored a “normal neurological status”, and a second MRI repeated 2 years after the disc implantation showed no complication with the implant.(Study published in JAVMA 2011).The 2011 was the start of a new era for the cure of disc associated wobbler syndrome in dogs.At this time, more than 40 patients/year, affected by disc associated wobbler syndrome at one, and multiple disc sites, are treated with cervical disc replacement and all with excellent results.

Education

• Università di Pisa

  DVM, Veterinary Medicine

  1986 — 2001

• Università di Pisa

  Doctor of Veterinary Medicine , Veterinary Medicine

Skills

• Clinical Research
• Animal Welfare
• Veterinary Medicine
• Surgery
• Animal Behavior
• Neurology
• Pets
• Soft Tissue Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Spine
• Veterinary
• Mri
• Dogs