MARCO VIVARELLI, MD Full Professor of Surgery, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy Director, Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and Transplantaion Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona EDUCATION Secondary School: diploma of classic studies with full marks in July 1982 University: graduated in Medicine and Surgery with a first-class honours degree at the University of Bologna in 1988 Specialization: first-class honours degree in General Surgery at the University of Bologna in 1993 WORK EXPERIENCES AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD - March 1st 1992 - March 31st 1993: Honorary Lecturer / registrar Institute of Liver Studies, King's College School of Medicine & Dentistry, King's College Hospital, London, UK - September 15th 1993 - April 30th !994: Research assistant,Institute of Liver Studies, King's College School of Medicine & Dentistry, King's College Hospital, London, UK - June 1st 1994 - January 31st 1995: Lecturer,Institute of Liver Studies, King's College School of Medicine & Dentistry, King's College Hospital, London, UK - February 1st 1995 - February 7th 1996: registrar in General Surgery,United Medical and Dental School (UMDS)/ Guys & St Thomas’, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, UK - February 12th 1996 - October 12th 1996: registrar Department of Liver Transplantation Surgery,King's College Hospital, London, UK - November 1st 1996 - July 31st 1997: staff surgeon, Clinica Chirurgica II, University of Bologna, S.Orsola Hospital, Bologna, Italy - December 4th 1997 - August 4th 1998; staff surgeon, Emergency Surgery,S.Orsola Hospital, Bologna, Italy - January 1999 - October 2012: assistant professor of Surgery, University of Bologna, staff surgeon of the Transplantation Unit, S.Orsola Hospital, Bologna, Italy - November 2012 - October 2016: associate Professor of Surgery, Polytechnic University of Marche, Director of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy - November 2016 to date: Full professor of Surgery, Polytechnic University of Marche, Director of Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and Transplantation Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy TEACHING EXPERIENCE -Lecturing and training Medical Students and Surgical residents at King's College Hospital, London from 1992 to 1995 - Several teaching appointments at the School of Medicine of University of Bologna from 1999 to 2012 - Several teaching appointments at the School of Medicine of the Polytechnic University of Marche from 2012, including PhD Schools ACTIVITY IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: Author/Co-author of 186 articles in indexed Journals, with a total IF of 1176 and H-index of 48 (Scholar) Referee: Transplant International, Liver Transplantation, Clinical Transplantation, Transplantation, Journal of Surgical Oncology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Journal of Hepatology, PLOSone, Annals of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery Member of the Editorial Board: World Journal of Gastroenterology Member of the Editorial Board: Cancers Consulting Editor: Updates in Surgery ACTIVITY IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES: - 2013-2016: counsellor and the vice-president of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantation (SITO) - 2020 to date: member of the college of probiviri of the Italian association of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery (AICEP) CONGRESSES - Speaker, invited speaker and chairman at several dozen of National and International Congresses - Organizer and president of the International Congress "Updates in Heapatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery" in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2109 SCIENTIFIC TRIALS AND STUDY GROUPS: - Designed and run the EPASTER Study (JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY, vol. 47, p. 793-798, ISSN: 0168-8278, doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2007.07.023) - Member of the Coagulation in Liver Disease Study Group - Member of the Italian ALPPS Registry Group - Member of the International ALPPS Registry Group - Member of the Liver Transplantation NITp working group - Member of the European Network for the Study on Cholangiocarcinoma (ENS-CCA) - Member of the HERCOLES Study Group - Member of the IgoMiPS Group - Memebr of the International Study Group on Ampullary cancers SURGICAL ACTIVITY - Casuistry of general surgery that includes all operations of upper, lower GI, endocrine, and breast surgery, venous system and minor vascular surgery such as A-V fistula creation - Over 600 liver and 100 kidney transplants performed as first surgeon - Experience with intestinal, pancreatic and multivisceral transplantation - Over 1500 operations on liver, bile tree and pancreas of which approximately 500 with miniinvasive approach performed as first surgeon