Full Name
UMBERTO CILLO
Job Title
Prof.of Surg.-Head Depart.of Surgic.Onc.and Gastro. Sciences-Head Depart.of Hepatol.-Dir.HPB and Liver Transpl.Unit Univ.of Padova–Italy- President Elect European Society of Organ Transplantat. (ESOT)
Company/Institution/ Organization
University Hospital Padova
Speaker Bio
Prof. of Surgery since 2011 and Chief since 2004 of the HPB and Liver Transplant. Unit,
Head of the Depart. of Surgical, Oncologic and Gastroenter. Sciences (DISCOG) (2023-2027) and Head, Hepatology Depart.– Padova Univ. Hospital (2020-ongoing)
President of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantat. (SITO-2017-2019)
Secretary of ESOT (2021-2025)
President Elect of ESOT 2025-2027
Member of the Italian Ministry of Health Commission for National Clinical Practice Guidelines (2024 ongoing)
Italian representative at the European Board of Surgery, section of Transplantation. Member of the Executive Board of the UEMS Transplant Division (Senior Secretary) (2022-2025).
Director of the Italian School for Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery (I-GO-MILS) 2019-2021
Since 2012 on, leader of the national consensus process for the allocation system (liver transplantation) in Italy.
2024 ongoing: Coordinator of the Veneto Region Center for Translational Research on Hepatobiliary Tumors)
First/co-author of 547 reviewed publications, 28 chapters and 5 monographs. TOT I.F. (JCR) 25616 H-INDEX 66 (Scopus) 70 (Google Scholar) Citations: 17834 (Scopus
First surgeon/tutor of over 4000 interventions of general and hepatobil. surgery, over 900 liver transplants, more than 120 pediatric liver transplants including split child-adult and adult-adult, living donors and robotic living donations.
He performed the APOLT (2007), the first liver auto-transplantation (2011), the first “RAPID” technique (2018) and the first “dual Liver Transplantation” (2023) in Italy. He published the first series of the West of full Robotic resection and reconstruction for pCCA (2021).
Scientific interest: Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Primary Liver Tumors,Transplant Oncology,Long term ex situ Machine Perfusion Preservation, Immunosuppression, Organ Allocation
Head of the Depart. of Surgical, Oncologic and Gastroenter. Sciences (DISCOG) (2023-2027) and Head, Hepatology Depart.– Padova Univ. Hospital (2020-ongoing)
President of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantat. (SITO-2017-2019)
Secretary of ESOT (2021-2025)
President Elect of ESOT 2025-2027
Member of the Italian Ministry of Health Commission for National Clinical Practice Guidelines (2024 ongoing)
Italian representative at the European Board of Surgery, section of Transplantation. Member of the Executive Board of the UEMS Transplant Division (Senior Secretary) (2022-2025).
Director of the Italian School for Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery (I-GO-MILS) 2019-2021
Since 2012 on, leader of the national consensus process for the allocation system (liver transplantation) in Italy.
2024 ongoing: Coordinator of the Veneto Region Center for Translational Research on Hepatobiliary Tumors)
First/co-author of 547 reviewed publications, 28 chapters and 5 monographs. TOT I.F. (JCR) 25616 H-INDEX 66 (Scopus) 70 (Google Scholar) Citations: 17834 (Scopus
First surgeon/tutor of over 4000 interventions of general and hepatobil. surgery, over 900 liver transplants, more than 120 pediatric liver transplants including split child-adult and adult-adult, living donors and robotic living donations.
He performed the APOLT (2007), the first liver auto-transplantation (2011), the first “RAPID” technique (2018) and the first “dual Liver Transplantation” (2023) in Italy. He published the first series of the West of full Robotic resection and reconstruction for pCCA (2021).
Scientific interest: Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Primary Liver Tumors,Transplant Oncology,Long term ex situ Machine Perfusion Preservation, Immunosuppression, Organ Allocation
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