Dr. Renato Patrone is an Abdominal Surgeon at the Hepatobiliary Surgical Oncology Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione Pascale di Napoli (Naples, Italy). He received his Master’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in July 2012 and became a General Surgeon in 2020 after a residency in oncological and endocrinological surgery at the Vanvitelli University of Campania. In January 2024, he obtained a PhD in ICTH (Information and Communication in Technology for Health), a special PhD course in engineering and medicine. His clinical practice and research focus on surgical oncology, new treatments, robotic surgery and minimally invasive surgery, particularly for patients with hepatobiliary, pancreatic and gastric tumors. He is a principal investigator for several national and international protocols and multicenter randomized studies. He has 73 publications with more than 1400 citations (from Scopus, 12 April 2024) and an h-index of 21. His main research areas include endocrine surgery, pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer, thyroid surgery, pancreatic surgery, and oncological surgery.