Since 2011, Maurizio has served as a consultant in Spinal Cord Injuries at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville, the UK's pioneering spinal unit. He began his education in his home country of Croatia and, in 1983, continued his studies at the University of Padua Medical School, earning a Doctor of Medicine & Surgery (DMS) degree in 1996. In 1997, he obtained his Diploma from the Italian National Board of Medical and Surgical Examiners at Padova University. He then moved to the UK, where he completed his Master’s in Surgical Science at Imperial College London in November 2001.

In July 2006, he was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) and completed his Spinal Cord Injuries (Rehabilitation Medicine) training at Oxford in 2010. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 2016. Over the course of his career, Maurizio has held medical positions in Italy, Poland, Croatia, and across the UK, including significant roles at hospitals in Torbay, Devon, Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, and Preston, Lancashire, where he worked as a Senior House Officer in Neurosurgery.

Maurizio's career has spanned several specialties, including anaesthetics, obstetrics and gynaecology, trauma and orthopaedics, intensive care, and peripheral neuropathy. He has conducted extensive research in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), with one of his recent multinational projects titled "Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS) on Chronic Pain in Spinal Cord Injured." He was introduced to the INSPIRE Foundation by Mariel Purcell and agreed to join the National Scientific Committee in December 2019.