Alberto Aiolfi MD FACS FEBS (UGI) is a surgeon at the Department of Digestive Endoscopy and Gastroenterological pathophysiology at the Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio and collaborates at Palazzo della Salute - Wellness Clinic. He graduated from the University of Milan in 2012 with a degree in Medicine with honors. In 2013, he enrolled in the School of General Surgery at the University of Milan and, after a one-year Research Fellowship at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA), he completed his residency in General Surgery with honors in 2018. Specifically, he practices at the section of minimally invasive surgery treating functional (esophageal diverticula, achalasia, gastroesophageal reflux) and oncologic pathologies of the upper gastrointestinal tract and colorectal tract. He also deals with diagnostic and operative digestive endoscopy and abdominal ultrasonography (SIUMB).
Luigi Bonavina MD FACS (Hon.) is a full professor of surgery
at the University of Milan Medical School and Director of the Department of
Surgery at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato. After his general and thoracic
surgical training at the University of Padua Medical School, he completed a
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago and Creighton
University. His current clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of
esophageal disease via minimally invasive transoral, thoracoscopic, and
laparoscopic approaches. He has served as a Visiting Professor in several
academic and non-academic institutions around the world. He currently serves as
an Associate Editor for Updates in Surgery, the official journal of the Italian
Society of Surgery, and is a Member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal
of Emergency Surgery. He has been nominated Honorary Member of the American
College of Surgeons and of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great
Britain and Ireland. He is an active member of the Italian Society of
Surgery, European Surgical Association, Académie National de Chirurgie,
American Foregut Society, International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus,
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and World Society of Emergency
Surgery. He has also served as past president of the European Foregut Society.
