Best surgeons in Italy: TOP 24 doctors

Doctor Luca Aldrighetti is a highly experienced hepatobiliary surgeon and the Head of the Hepatobiliary and General Surgery Division at the San Raffaele Research Hospital in Milan. He is an international pioneer of minimally invasive liver surgery, having initiated and developed the San Raffaele laparoscopic liver resection program with more than 1,000 cases to date. He has a PhD in Technological Applications and Experimental Methodologies, is Professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, and is a member of 18 national and international scientific societies.

Spine Surgeon

Dr. Roberto Bassani has performed over 2,500 major spinal surgical operations in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine.

Director of the General Surgery Unit at Mater Olbia Hospital with Medical Degree with Honors from Catholic University, Rome, Italy and Certificate of Specialist in General Surgery. Experienced in performing over 1300 surgical procedures including liver, pancreas, and kidney transplants and 500 cases of oncologic operations. Teaching activity at School of Medicine and Surgery, Cattolica International, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Member of Italian Society of Surgery and the Italian Society of Oncologic Surgery. Author and co-author of publications in international journals.

Dr. Francesco Grecchi is a maxillofacial surgeon at the Maxillofacial Surgery Unit at the IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute in Milan. He is specialized in General Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery and is a founding member of GISOS with co-authorship of over 100 publications in national and international journals. He is also a Referent in Maxillofacial Surgery for the National Ectodermal Dysplasia Association and consultant of the Maxillofacial Surgery department of the Italian Stomatological Institute in Milan.

Surgeon, senologist

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua, where, in 1996, he obtained the specialization in Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases. In 1994 he specialized in Metabolic Diseases from the San Bortolo University Hospital in Vicenza. Engaged in research activities in the areas of use of engineered tissues and growth factors for tissue regeneration, new technologies in the field of conservative surgical treatment, and extreme percutaneous revascularization protocols. He has been chairman of several international courses on Diabetic Foot and Charcot Foot and he is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Diabetic Foot and Ankle", and of the European Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG).

Author of over 100 scientific publications and about 300 speeches at international congresses, including several editions of the National Congress of the Diabetes Doctors Association or the Italian Journal of Diabetology.

Awarded with "Ilizarov Award of Excellence" at the International External Fixation Symposium, 2018; -“Paul Brand Memorial Lecture” Award in 2016.

Prof. Marco Alloisio is the thoracic surgery Unit Director at Humanitas Research Hospital. He graduated in Medicine in 1976 at Università Statale of Milan, specialized in General Surgery, Oncological and Thoracic Surgery. 

Under the guidance of Professor Umberto Veronesi, from 1977 to 1997 he was an assistant in the divisions of general oncological, otolaryngology and thoracic surgery at the National Cancer Institute of Milan (INT). During this period, he also worked with general surgery, breast surgery, oncological otorhinolaryngology and had several periods spent studying abroad (Paris and New York at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).

In 1997 he started his activity at Humanitas Research Hospital and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of Mini-Invasive Thoracic Surgery. From 2006 he was designated Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the same Institution. Main clinical activity has been focused on Thoracic Surgical Oncology, and in particular all kinds of surgical management of primary and secondary lung cancer, lung metastases, mediastinal tumors and thoracic wall tumors. Prof. Marco Alloisio is president of the Italian League for the fight against cancer (LILT) in Milan, and member of many national and international societies (SIC, SICO, ESSO, ISDE, ACOI, SICT, ESTS).

Author of over 200 publications, including articles and presentations to national and internationals scientific meetings. His engagement in clinical research involves early detection and management of primary lung cancer and his treatment also with video-assisted techniques, successful treatment of lung metastases with new techniques for salvage surgery (multiple sub lobar resections and laser resections) but also aggressive surgery for advanced lung cancers after induction chemotherapy and treatment of the thoracic wall and vertebral bodies. 
In the latter field, he is engaged in the surgical treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma (extra pleural pneumonectomy) with multimodality approaches in a multicentric Italian cooperative group.

Currently engaged in genetic research studies such as "ERCC1 and B-Tubulin exspression in locally advanced NSCLC treated with platinum/vinorelbin neodjuvant chemotherapy" and in external collaborations with universities and hospitals around the world.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=alloisio+marco