ENDOCAS - Center for Computer Assisted Surgery

Mauro Ferrari (m.ferrari@med.unipi.it)

Mauro Ferrari was born in Livorno, August 18, 1952. He graduated from Medical School at the University of Pisa in 1977. He specialized in General Surgery and later in Vascular Surgery. Since 1997 he chairs the Unit of Vascular Surgery at the University of Pisa. Since 2004 he is Full Professor of Surgery. He is member of several scientific societies (Italian Society for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery; European Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery; European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery; European Surgical Association). He has been National Secretary of the Section for Mininvasive Vascular Surgery (SAAM). Development of techniques and instruments for mininvasive aortic surgery is one of his main interests. He published 2 books and over 380 papers or chapters.

Andrea Pietrabissa (mailto:apietrab@med.unipi.it)

Andrea Pietrabissa was born in 1959 in Pisa. He graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa and he specialized in General Surgery. From 1986 to 1988 he was Research Fellow in Hepatic Tranplantation at the University of Chicago, and from the 1992 to the 1993 he was Senior Registrar at the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee (Scotland) and Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Dundee. Since 1999 he is Associate Professor of General Surgery at the University of Pisa. He is responsible of the Minimally Invasive Section of the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation at the University of Pisa, and, until now, he performed over than 3000 surgical interventions. He is member of several scientific societies (EAES European Association of Endoscopic Suegeons, SAGES Society of American Gastrointestinal Surgeons), and he is in the international Editorial Board of the Surgical Endoscopy journal. He was involved in a lot of research projects at national and international level and co-inventor of some patents.

Prof. Davide Caramella (davide.caramella@med.unipi.it)

Davide Caramella was born in 1958 in Florence. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Florence, where he specialized in Radiology in 1990. In 1992 he moved to the Department of Radiology of the University of Pisa and since 2000 is Associate Professor of Radiology.
He has been Chairman of the Information Technology Committee of the European Association of Radiology, Scientific Director of Eurorad (http://www.eurorad.org/), President of EuroPACS (http://www.europacs.org/) and Chairman of the eHealth subcommittee of the European Society of Radiology (ESR). Presently he is Chairman of the eEducation working group of the ESR, member of the Board of SIRM (Italian Society of Medical Radiology), honorary member of the Board of EuroPACS., Chairman of the CARS 2012 Conference (http://www.cars-int.org/)
Is co-editor of six books on computer applications in Radiology, radiological resources on Internet, and advanced image processing. Published over 150 papers on cross sectional imaging, oncologic imaging, and IT in radiology (h index = 22).

Prof. Sir Alfred Cuschieri (a.cuschieri@sssup.it)

Sir Alfred Cuschieri was born in 1938 in Malta. He graduated with honors from the Medical School of the Royal University of Malta in 1961. In 1963 he transferred to the UK and established his academic surgical career in Liverpool before moving to Scotland and the University of Dundee in 1976. He was Head of the Academic Department of Surgery and Molecular Oncology at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee until 2003. Currently, he is Professor of Surgery at the S’Anna School of Advanced University Studies in Pisa and holds honorary professorship at the University of St Andrews, Imperial College London and several European and North American Universities. Sir Alfred is known internationally for his pioneering work in the development of technology enabling the execution and clinical evaluation of minimal access surgery. Prof Cuschieri has been President of the International Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Association, Chairman of the Association of Academic Departments of Surgery in Europe and President of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques, the major leading peer-reviewed journal in the field.

Prof. Giuseppe Turchetti (turk@sssup.it)

Giuseppe Turchetti received his Laurea Degree in Economics and Management (with Honors) from the University of Pisa in 1992. He received a PhD degree in Economics and Management (with Honors) from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. He spent several research periods in USA as Visiting Scholar at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Co-Founder of the Research Center on Technologies and Services for the Support of Longevity (EZ-Lab) and of the Research Laboratory on Innovation in Business and Territorial Systems (IN-SAT Lab), he is the Director of the Research Center on European Transplantation Management (ETXMAN Centre) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. His main research interests are in the fields of the organization, financing and evaluation of health care services and health technologies. He is working on several national and international projects in the area of health care technologies and management.

Prof. Paolo Dario (dario@sssup.it)

Paolo Dario received the Dr. Eng. Degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1977. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. He also teaches courses at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa, and at the Campus BiomedicoUniversity, Rome, Italy. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown University, Providence, RI, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He was the founder of the Advanced Robotics Technologies and Systems (ARTS) Laboratory and is currently the co-cordinator of the Center for Research in Microengineering (CRIM) Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he supervises a team of about 70 researchers and Ph.D. students. He is also the Director of the Polo Sant’Anna Valdera and a Vice-Director of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Prof. Dario served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society during 2002–2003, and he is currently Co-Chair of the Technical Committees on Bio-robotics and of Robo-ethics of the same society.

Prof. Carlo Bartolozzi (bartolozzi@med.unipi.it)

Carlo Bartolozzi was born in Jesolo (Venezia) August 13, 1947. He graduated from Medical School at the University of Padova in 1972. In 1977 he was Radiology Assistant at the University of Florence, where in 1980 he became Associate Professor in Radiology. Since 1990 he is Full Radiology Professor, Director of the Chair of Radiology and Chairman of the Radiology Residency Program at the University of Pisa. Since 1999 he is Director of the Department of Oncology, Transplants, and Advanced Technologies in Medicine of the University of Pisa. From 2000 - 2001 he was President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB). From 2000 - 2004 he was Section Editor of EURORAD (http://www.eurorad.org/) for "Liver, biliary system, pancreas, spleen", and in 2005 he was President of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR). He is Member of the Steering Committee of the Erasmus Course on Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He es Section Editor of the Journal European Radiology". He published 5 monographs and over 300 papers or chapters.

Dr. Luca Morelli (lu.morelli@ao-pisa.toscana.it)

Dr. Morelli was born in 1974 in Pisa. He graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery at University of Pisa and he specialized in General Surgery. In 2001 he was Visiting Scholar in Clinical Multi-Organ Transplantation at University of California, Los Angeles. After working in the field of organ transplantation from 2004 to 2007 his interest has shifted more in the field of surgical oncology, new technologies and minimally invasive surgery. In 2009 he became the referent surgeon of Minimally Invasive, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery at General Surgery Unit directed by Prof. Franco Mosca, Full Professor at University of Pisa, Tuscany (Italy). His surgical experience consists of approximately 4000 surgical Interventions of which over 1200 as first operator and over 1500 Interventional Ultrasound procedures. He is member of several Scientific Societies (CRSA Clinical Robotic Surgery Association, SIUMB Itialian Society of Ultrasound in Biology and Medicine, SITO Italian Society Organ Transplantation). Since 1999, he has published 121 papers in scientific publications on several topics such as transplants, surgical oncology, interventional ultrasound, laparoscopic and robotic surgery.

Published on: 2006-11-15 (9301 reads)

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