Prof. Ludovico Docimo is a professor and full director of UOC General, Minimally Invasive, and Obesity Surgery at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". He previously worked as a primary university professor at the Second University of Naples (1998–2017) and as a stagista at St. Mark's Hospital (1985). His research is in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and Cox regression.