Guido Torzilli MD, PhD, FACS, FAFC, FCHB, FCBCD

Dr. Guido Torzilli, MD, Ph.D., FACS, FAFC, FCHB, FCBCD, is a Professor of Surgery at the Humanitas University. He specialized in 1993 at Milan University in General Surgery and in 1999 he collected a Ph.D. at the School of Medicine at Tokyo University. His academic career started at the University of Tokyo where he acted as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Department of Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, chaired at that time by his mentor, Professor Masatoshi Makuuchi. He also worked as Professor at Milano University. He was appointed as a Fellow of the Japanese Foundation for the Promotion of Cancer Research, he is a member of the European Surgical Association, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Torzilli carries out deep research in the diagnosis and treatment of primitive and secondary tumors of the liver, in the intraoperative guide technique of liver tumors, and in liver regeneration. He introduced into practice new concepts such as parenchymal-sparing liver surgery in the presence of vascular contact (R1vascular) and parenchymal-sparing liver surgery in the presence of vascular infiltration (adjoining veins).