Associate Professor of General Surgery, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry of the University of Salerno - Chief of the General Surgery of the AOU San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d'Aragona, Chief of the Department of General Surgery and Transplant Surgery - Multidisciplinary Oncological Group for Hepatobilio-Pancreatic and Gastroesophageal cancer AOU Ruggi d'Aragona Member of the PhD in Translational Medicine for Development and Active Aging, University of Salerno Professor of General Surgery with teaching assignments in the degree courses in Medicine and Surgery, School of Specialization in General Surgery, Nursing, Health Professions of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Salerno President of the Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery (SICG) - Member of the Italian Society of Surgery (SIC), Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery (SICG), Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery and New Technologies (SICE), European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), Member of GIRCG (Italian Group for Gastric Cancer Research ) Referee of World Journal of Gastroenterology, WebMedCentral Journal of Surgery (Open Access Biomedical Publisher), World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Reviewer of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, PLOs ONE Associate Editor Board of the American Journal of Digestive Diseases Associate Editor Board of the Journal Clinics in Surgery - General Surgery Author of about 160 publications - h-index: 18