Prof. Alessandro Zerbi is a Professor of General Surgery and a Director of the Pancreatic Surgery Unit at the Humanitas Research Hospital. He graduated from the State University of Milan (1984) and did his residency in General Surgery in 1989. Currently, he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Chapter of E-AHPBA, and of the Ethical Committee of Humanitas Research Hospital. He has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with the h-index of 58 (Scopus, March 2024). His research fields and interests are the benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas and the technical aspects of pancreatic surgery, along with biologic, metabolic and immunologic characterization of pancreatic carcinoma.