Chief of Vascular Surgery Division
"Sapienza" University of Rome
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Department of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Languages: Italian, English and French
ACADEMIC DEGREES
-1981: MD degree (cum laude), Sapienza University
-1981-1986: Residency Board (cum laude) in General Surgery, Sapienza University
-1986-1991: Residency Board (cum laude) in Vascular Surgery, University
-1985-1986: Fellowship in Vascular Surgery at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA
-1990-1991: Chef de Clinique, Department of Surgery, University of Nice, France
-1988: Fellow Academic Surgical Unit, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK
-December 1988 – October 2000: Assistant Sapienza University
-November 2000 – February 2004: Associate Professor Sapienza University
-2004-now: Professor of Vascular Surgery, Sapienza University
-2000 – 2006: Academic Senate, Sapienza University
-2012-now: Adjunct Professor of Surgery, USUHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
VISITOR:
-August 1979: at Vascular Unit, Karolinska Institut, Stockholm
-1981: Visitor at Vascular Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard University, Boston
-1989: Vascular Unit, Washington University, Seattle
-1989: Vascular Unit, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
VISITING PROFESSOR
-1996-2003: USUHS, Bethesda,
-2000 University of Manila, Philippines
-2004 University of Tokyo, Japan
-2009 University of Sydney, Australia
-2010 Harvard University, Mass. Gen. Hosp., Boston, USA
-2011 University of Athens, Greece
-2012 University of Strasbourg, France
GRANTS 2001-now grants regularly funded
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Fellow American College of Surgeons Society for Vascular Surgery
American Venous Forum
European Society for Vascular Surgery
European Society for Surgical Research
Società Italiana di Chirurgia Società Italiana Chirurgia Vascolare ed Endovascolare
Popliteal Vascular Entrapment FORUM (President 1998-2002)
PUBLICATIONS Author of over 300 publications (h-index 23, citations 2105)
SURGICAL ACTIVITIES over 7000 interventions.
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