Dr. Battiston Carlo

Education  

Board Certificate in GI Surgery and Digestive Endoscopic Surgery, University of Milan  in 1998,  70/70 .  

Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan in 1992, 110/110 cum laude 

Research and professional Experience 

September 2002 - Today: Assistant Professor of Surgery, Gastrointestinal and Hepatopancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy.  

Special interest: medium and high complexity surgical activity concerning the pathology - mainly oncological - of the liver, bile ducts, pancreas, stomach, spleen, small intestine and colon. The personal surgical case history as first operator consists of over 1800 interventions that include procedures in digestive and general surgery. As evidence of the qualified professional level achieved, the following interventions are particularly worthy of note: liver transplant, liver harvesting from a multi-organ cadaver donor, major hepatectomy, multiple liver resections, duodenocephalopancreatectomy, distal splenopancreatectomy, esophago-gastric resection, total and subtotal gastrectomy with extended lymphadenectomy. 

In the field of videolaparoscopic surgery: atypical and major liver resections, mini hepatic ALPPS, splenectomy, distal spleno-pancreatectomy, atypical gastric resection, subtotal gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy, esophago-gastric resection, hemicolectomy. 

Doctor authorized for the operations of liver harvesting and transplantation from cadavers for therapeutic purposes at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan. 

Activities in the management of the hospitalization department and in outpatient visits. 

January 1999 - September 2002: Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Ospedale di Abbiategrasso, Milan, Italy. Special interest: videolaparoscopic surgery. 

January 1998 - October 1998: Assistant in training, division of thoracic surgery, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy. Special interest: lung cancer 

July 1997 - December 1997 and  June 1996 - December 1996: Assistant in training, Institute of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology I, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. Special interest:  cancer of the esophagus 

February 1993 - July 1997: Assistant in training, Division of General Surgery, Ospedale “Vallecamonica”, Esine ( BS ), Italy. Special interest: abdominal and videolaparoscopic surgery.  

October 1990 - January 1993: Fellowship, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. Special interest:  gastrointestinal surgery.  

Publications 

75  scientific publications. 10  posters . 7 videos 

Fixed-term contract professor (without costs for the University) of the School of Specialization in General Surgery of the University of Milan [ 2016 – Current ] 

Tutor of the School of Specialization in General Surgery of the University of Milan [ 2012 – 2017 ] 

Teacher and clinical tutor of the Italian Special School ACOI of Liver Surgery [ 2008 – 2018 ] 

Member of the following multidisciplinary teams of the National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy: 

- Tumor board gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors 

- Liver Transplant multidisciplinary group 

- Pancreas unit multidisciplinary group 

- Uveal melanoma multidisciplinary group