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Open Access Surgery

ISSN: 1178-7082


Professor Luigi Bonavina

Professor Bonavina

Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milano Medical School, Milan, Italy

Dr. Bonavina is currently a full-professor at the University of Milano Medical School and Chief of the Department of Surgery at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy. He graduated from University of Padova and specialized in General Surgery and in Thoracic Surgery. As postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago and Creighton University, he was involved in esophageal pathophysiology and reconstructive surgery of the foregut.

Dr. Bonavina's past research at the University of Padova and Milano focused on esophageal surgery and disease, fundoplication and ablative techniques for Barrett’s esophagus, and cancer prevention. His current research includes studies on gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophageal motility disorders, minimally invasive (thoracoscopic, laparoscopic, and trans-oral) surgical procedures, surgical oncology, and surgical education.

Since 1995, Dr. Bonavina is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also an Active member of the European Surgical Association, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Académie National de Chirurgie (Paris), and a Council Member of the World Society of Emergency Surgery.

At national and international levels, Dr. Bonavina has served as member and chair of many grant review and clinical guidelines panels and on the editorial advisory boards of multiple medical journals.


Editorial Board

Laura Antolino, MD, PhD, UOC Chirurgia Generale Oncologica, PO Belcolle - ASL Viterbo (IT), Rome.

Mark Otto Baerlocher, Department of Radiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Ontario, Canada

B. Sonny Bal, MD MBA JD PhD, President & CEO, Sintx Technologies, Salt Lake City, USA.

Somprakas Basu, Professor & Head, Department of General Surgery; Dean (International affairs), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India

Jasneet Singh Bhullar, MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS, Clin Associate Prof of Surgery, College of Human Medicine Program Director, Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, Ascension - MSU/ CHM Director Endoscopy -Ascension Providence, Michigan State University, USA.

Ramazi O. Datiashvili, Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, USA

Dr. Armin Kraus, Associate Professor, Consultant of Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.

Prof. Francesco Oliva (MD; PhD), Chairman Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life, San Raffaele Open University, Rome, Italy

Faustino R Pérez-López, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Zaragoza Hospital Clínico, Zaragoza, Spain

Brian J. Santin, Vascular Surgeon, Ohio Vein & Vascular Inc, Clinton Memorial Hospital, Wilmington, Ohio, USA