Prof. Dr. Blaž Trotovšek is an associate professor of surgery at University Medical Centre (UMC) Ljubljana, Slovenia. He became a specialist of general and abdominal surgery in 2000 and received his PhD in 2004 for research about variations in hepatic veins and their relevance for surgery and liver transplantation. He spent his post-doctorate year at Charite Campus Wirchow, Berlin, in the department of General, Visceral and Transplantation surgery of Prof. Peter Neuhaus. From 2006, when he was elected to the position of associated professor of Surgery at MF, University of Ljubljana, he has also been head of the national surgical team for multiorgan procurement and an active member of the EuroTransplant liver–intestine committee. From 2008 to 2016 he was the head of the division for surgical endoscopy and he represented UMC Ljubljana for 2 years as assisting director for education. He specializes in hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal surgery, abdominal trauma, surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, organ procurement and liver transplantation. Currently, he has been appointed as the head of the division of HPB surgery and liver transplantation and is a member of the West–East Balkan chapter of IHPBA. He started to use VAC therapy for open abdomen treatment in 2002 and he spreads the application of this technique to different scopes of abdominal and general surgery. He has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the area of abdominal surgery.
