Matteo Donadon is a General Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Program of Surgical Oncology at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Ospedale Maggiore, Novara, Italy. He received his medical degree at the University of Milan and completed his residency in general surgery at the same University. During that period he also worked as a research fellow at the Department of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. He earned his PhD in Hepatobiliary Oncology at the University of Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy. He worked for many years in the Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery of the Humanitas University, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital. He is the author/coauthor of over 15 book chapters and copious abstracts and presentations at national and international meetings. He has 186 publications with 6387 citations and an h-index of 40 (Scopus, 8 December 2023).