Andrea Lauterio (MD) is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Milan-Bicocca and the Director of the Division of Liver Surgery & Liver and Kidney Transplantation - ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano - Niguarda, Milan. He qualified in Medicine and Surgery in Milan, Italy and trained in General Surgery in Italy and US. Dr. Lauterio is a board-certified in General Surgery. He received focused training on liver and kidney transplantation (from both living and deceased donors) as a Visiting Surgeon, at the University of Pittsburgh (PA), Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute in 2003, and at the Department of Surgery, University of Illinois in Chicago in 2017. His expertise mainly relates to liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, primary and metastatic liver cancer, and minimally invasive procedures focused on robotic surgery. His research interest mainly relates to study the role of laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques in liver surgery and kidney procurement from living donor, new strategies in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver metastases, grafts preservation, and policy issues regarding liver donation and organ allocation. Since performing the first case in 2015, Dr. Lauterio helped develop the field of donation after cardiac death liver transplantation and pioneered the use of sequential normothermic regional perfusion and hypothermic and normothermic machine perfusion to improve liver transplantation outcomes. Dr. Lauterio has published extensively in the field of transplantation and hepato-biliary surgery in peer-reviewed professional journals (documents by author:148; h-index:27; citations:2693 – Scopus, Feb/2025), and presented as invited speaker and lecturer at major scientific conferences.