Personal:
Place of Birth: Italy
Date of Birth: October 11, 1974
Citizenship: Italian
Family Status: Married, two children
Education:
2005 to 2009 PhD (Medical/Surgical Gastroenterological and Transplantation
Science)
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
1993 to Jul 1999 Medical Degree
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
Training:
Oct 1999 to Sep 2005 Residency in General Surgery
S. Orsola Hospital (directed by Prof. Antonino Cavallari and from 2005 by Prof. A.D. Pinna)
Bologna, Italy
- Summer 2003:Visiting Resident, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the Hospital of Beaujon in Paris, directed by Prof. Jack Belghiti.
- Summer 2002: Visiting Resident, Department of Liver Transplantation at the King's College Hospital in London, directed by Prof. Nigel Heaton.
Certification/Qualification:
Jul 2000 Qualification (#0000001439), Provincial Register of Physicians and
Surgeons of Rimini
Work Experience:
Aug 2010 to Present Staff Liver Transplant Surgeon/Chief of Kidney Transplant
S. Orsola Hospital
Bologna, Italy
- Teaching, tertiary facility with 1,535 beds.
- Until Dec 2017, was one of three Liver Transplant Surgeons; since Jan 2018 is one of two Liver Transplant Surgeons.
- Is Chief of Department of Kidney Transplant, with three Kidney Transplant Surgeons (including self).
- Since 2013, personally performs: 30 to 40 liver transplants per year; 50 to 80 liver resections per year; and 60 to 70 kidney transplants (15 from living donors) per year.
- Also performs general surgery procedures like laparoscopic appendectomy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, colo-rectal surgery, hernia repair, and gastric resections.
- Teaches Residents and Fellows; the hospital has 10 Fellows in transplant surgery and/or liver resection.
Sep 2009 to Aug 2010 Staff Surgeon with Permanent Contract
Hospital of Rimini
Rimini, Italy
Teaching facility, operating on three sites, with a total of approximately 1,200 beds.
2009 to Aug 2009 Fixed-Term Contract Surgeon
S. Orsola Hospital
Bologna, Italy
- Teaching, tertiary facility with 1,535 beds.
- Held this position while completing PhD.
Short-Term Professional Development:
- 2009 (two weeks): Attended the course of hepatobiliary surgery about the procedures of split liver transplantation, in Ghent, Belgium, directed by Prof. Troisi.
- 2006 (two months): Visiting Faculty, Department of Hepato-biliary Surgery at the Asan Medical Center in Seoul, directed by Prof. Sung-Gyu Lee, completing the training in hepatobiliary surgery and living-donor liver transplantation.
- Summer 1998: Student Placement, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Institute "Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine" in London, directed by Prof. R.C.N. Williamson.
- Summer 1996:Student Placement, Department of Vascular Surgery at the McMaster University McMaster in Hamilton (Canada), directed by Prof. Claudio Cina.
Academic Competencies:
His h-index is 48, according to Google Scholar and he is author or co-authors of more than 220 papers indexed on Pub-Med with a total impact factors of more than 650.
Has had the qualification for Associate Professor since 2013 and for Full Professor since 2017 (expecting a Full Professor appointment with the university in 2018).
The main field of research are liver transplantation and liver resection. Recently developed a machine for organ perfusion and has a national grant for ongoing study of this topic. Is a coordinator of a study on micro-RNA and hepatocellular carcinoma with regional grant.
Participated in the following studies:
- Clinical Investigator: Immunological, virological and oncological follow-up of the liver recipients; Programma di ricerca Regione-Università (i.e., a collective of universities in the Emilia-Romagna region) 2007-2009.
- Clinical Investigator: Hepatic preconditioning: molecular mechanisms responsible for the induction of tolerance to ischemia-reperfusion and clinical applications in liver resection and transplantation; PRIN 2004 (i.e., known by the English “Research Projects of Relevant National Interest”).
- Principal Investigator:Molecular classification of hepatocellular carcinoma to select the more appropriate surgical treatment: liver transplantation or liver resection; Programma di ricerca Regione-Università (i.e., a collective of universities in the Emilia-Romagna region) 2010-2012 - Bando Giovani Ricercatori.
Mother Tongue:
Italian
Other Languages:
English – Good skills in reading, writing, and verbal
Additional Information:
Invited speaker at the following meeting:
- 10th World Congress of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association; Paris 2012;
- 18th International Liver Transplant Society; San Francisco 2012;
- 1st European Meeting of Young Surgeons; Rome 2009;
- 20th Japanese society of small bowel transplantation; Osaka 2008.
Reviewer for the Following International Journals:
- Liver Transplantation;
- Clinical Transplantation;
- Digestive and Liver Disease;
- Journal of Hepatology;
- Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy;
- Journal of Transplantation;
- Journal of the American College of Surgeons;
- Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases;
- Journal of Clinical Oncology;
- Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology;
- Surgical Science;
- Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology;
- Updates in Surgery;
- PLOS ONE;
- Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
- Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases.
