Salomone Di Saverio

Local Agency of Health of Bologna 普外科 Chairman

MD FACS FRCSLocal Agency of Health of BolognaFrom November 2010 he is substantive Consultant General Surgeon in the General, Emergency and Colorectal Surgery Surgery. He is one of the 5 Chief Consultant s of the Department, performing elective General Surgery Procedures and being Team Leader Consultant in Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, on call rota for emergencies 1:5. Since July 2014 he has the responsability of “Clinical Head for Laparoscopy in Trauma Surgery” within the Trauma Surgery Unit Department of Emergency, Trauma Center – Maggiore Hospital of Bologna. Since November 2014 he is Vice-Chairman of the Trauma Surgery Unit, Department of Emergency, Trauma Center – Maggiore Hospital of Bologna. He authored more than 650 scientific papers published in national and international journals, in more than 450 as a first author. He published more than 130 papers in peer reviewed journals with Impact Factor (Overall IF more than 550), more than 100 as a first author. He has published many research paper and other type of articles about GI Surgery and GI diseases, Laparoscopy, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, as well as Surgical Oncology, on journals  as prestigious as BMJ, CMAJ, Annals of Surgery, Journal of American college of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, BMC Gastroenterology. He attended as a delegate, invited speaker, moderator, discussant or instructor faculty member to more than 180 scientific conferences, meetings and courses, in Italy and around  the world. He has been first author or co-author of several chapters and contributions in scientific books and manuals, in Italian and English. He is also currently the leading Editor of two Trauma Surgery book published by Springer publisher. He is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Breast Cancer Journal as well as of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Therapy. Since 2011 he is also Member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery and of the Board of the Directors of the World Society of Emergency Surgery. From 2014 he is Section Editor of the WJES. Since 2012 he has been invited to join as Academic Editor the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research and Senior Editor of Chronicles of Surgery. From December 2014 he is Associate Editor of BMC Surgery and also Editorial Board member of the journal Current Trauma Reports (Springer). From 2015 he is Editorial Board member of BMJ Case Reports and of the prestigious British Journal of Surgery. He is also member of the Editorial Board of ISRN Emergency Medicine and from March 2012 is Editor-in-Chief of  the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Therapy. From 2012 he’s also been promoted to be Chief Editor of BJMMR. He has also been the winner of the 2010 “Mazzeo” Prize for the best scientific paper and the best Italian Young Surgeon, awarded by the Italian Society for Digestive Diseases. In the National Congress 2011 of Italian Society of Young Surgeons in Naples he has been awarded with “Prof. Crucitti prize”, given to the best Italian Young Surgeons under 40 of the year 2011. He has been involved as co-investigator or principal investigator in more than 30 research projects and international clinical trials, mostly multicenter prospective randomized. He is Principal Investigator of Bologna center for the international multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial, coordinated by the Dutch Diverticular Diseases Group, “The Ladies Trial” investigating the laparoscopic treatment of perforated diverticulitis and being actively involved as primary  operating surgeon. He is also Principal Investigator in the center of Bologna for international multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial, coordinated by University of Helsinki, Laparoscopic versus open adhesiolysis for small bowel obstruction (NCT01867528) and being actively involved as primary operating surgeon. Since 2010 has been nominated by the University of Bologna as Tutor/eva luating Professor in the discipline General Surgery in the Clinical Skills (Clinical Practice) Hospital session of the Medical Graduates  for National Medical Licensing Exam. Since 2011 he is Instructor, member of the Faculty of the Trauma Surgery and Hands On Course, official course of the Italian Society of Surgeons for Specialist Surgeons. In 2014-2015 he has been member of DSTC (Definitive Surgical Trauma Care course) Faculty in Spain and Greece. He has described and published in well regarded scientific journal or surgery books, several original or innovative surgical techniques in both open and laparoscopic surgery (Techniques for liver packing, for trauma splenectomy, duodenal damage control and 4-tubes ostomy in case of caustic injuries, techniques for Entero-Atmospheric fistulas isolation in Open Abdomen, low cost laparoscopic appendectomy, low cost SILS with surgical glove for appendectomy and other colorectal urgent diseases, laparoscopy for all types of emergency surgery procedures and for colorectal emergencies) and several clinical algorithms  published within scientific articles (liver trauma, spleen trauma, hiatus hernias). He has performed to date more than 3000 major surgical procedures; out of them more than 1800 were urgent/emergency procedures and more than 490 laparoscopic cases. He performed more than 1300 procedures as first operator of all types of surgery, and more than 340 laparoscopic cases as first operator. In emergency laparoscopy setting he has performed as first operator any type of emergency surgery procedure with laparoscopic technique (complicated/perforated acute appendicitis, acute cholecystitis, lap repair of gastroduodenal perforations, laparoscopic removal of intra-gastric or intestinal foreign bodies, laparoscopic gastroenteronastomoses and lap GastroJJ, laparoscopy for adhesive small bowel obstruction and laparoscopic adhesiolysis, laparoscopic lavage for purulent perforated diverticulitis, laparoscopic Hartmann’s procedures and Laparoscopic Colonic resections with primary anastomosis for perforated diverticulitis, laparoscopy for diffuse peritonitis, laparoscopic reduction and repair in strangulated incisional hernia, laparoscopic reduction and repair of strangulated PEH, laparoscopic colonic resection with intracorporeal anastomosis or lap Hartmann’s for obstructing colon carcinoma). He ha also performed as first operator several laparoscopic procedures for Abdominal Trauma in hemodynamically stable patients such as laparoscopic splenectomy, drainage of pancreatic hematoma and hemostasis of pancreatic laceration, laparoscopic repair of traumatic diaphragmatic injuries, lap repair of traumatic small bowel lacerations. He has performed as well more than 1100 minor surgical procedures in outpatient  or inpatient setting. He has been involved in research projects of University of Miami in the fields of Trauma and Surgical Oncology in 2006. In 2007 he spent 5 months, with the authorization of the Italian Ministry of Health, in the University of Kwazulu Natal, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa, with the role of Supernumerary Surgical Registrar and registered as Medical Practitioner to the Health Professions Council of South Africa. In South Africa he has achieved the BLS, ACLS and ATLS certification. In 2009 he successfully qualified as ALS Advanced Life Support Provider). Since 2015 has been accepted as Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, approved by the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons and privileged to use the FACS designation. He has also been accepted as a Fellow by the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons of England and privileged to use the FRCS designation. Since 2003 he is member of the Medical Board of the Province of Bologna (n. 14708); he was registered also to the Health Profession Council of South Africa (MP0641758). In 2007 he completed the verification of credentials and registration to the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates/International Credentials Services (ECFMG/EICS® number E176503). Since 2009 he is registered as Specialist in General Surgery to the English General Medical Council, in the Specialist Register (Ref. N. 7039978), for any work grade, including Consultant Surgeon. He can speak fluently English, Spanish and French. His main fields of interest are currently Gastrointestinal Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Emergency Surgery either open or laparoscopic, Trauma, Abdominal and Laparoscopic Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery.