Prof. Alessandro Vitale received a degree in Medicine from the University of Padua (1999) and a specialization in General Surgery (2005). In 2008, he was awarded a PhD in Surgical Sciences and Technological Applications from the University of Padova. In 2011, he became a Fellow of the European Board of Surgeons (FEBS) in Liver transplantation and Donor operation. As a surgeon, he worked as an assistant surgeon at the Oncology Surgical Unit of the Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV–IRCCS from 2006 to 2000. In 2010, he became a staff surgeon at the Hepatobiliary Surgery and Hepatic Transplantation Unit, Padua-University Hospital. Since 2006, he has been a Contract Professor of “Surgical Oncology” at the fifth year of the postgraduate school in General Surgery (1st School of Surgery) at the University of Padova. He has won more than 20 awards in International Congresses. He has written more than 70 publications of full-length papers in international journals with impact factor. In 2013, he obtained the Italian scientific certification for Professor in General Surgery. His main clinical and research interests include hepato-biliary and colon-rectal tumours: patient follow-up (after resection, transplantation, non-surgical therapies), overall and recurrence-free survival analyses, univariate and multivariate prognostic analyses, evaluation of new prognostic scores, clinical research of new blood and tissue bio-molecular markers, and comparison between therapeutic strategies.