Prof. Antonino Spinelli

MD, PhD, FEBS (Colo), FASCRS, CBCD (Hon), CSS (Hon), F-ESA, F-IOIBD, President-Elect, European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP); Director, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and Co-Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Humanitas Rozzano Milano; Professor of Surgery, Director, General Surgery Residency Program and Lead, Surgical Innovation Committee, Humanitas University, Italy Colorectal Surgery
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Prof. Spinelli is the Director of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Director of the General  Surgery Residency Program, Full Professor of Surgery and Lead of the Surgical Innovation  Committee at Humanitas University, Rozzano Milano, Italy. 

He trained for two years (2003-2005) at the University of Berlin – Charitè, and later he gained his  PhD on enhanced recovery protocols in colorectal surgery.  

He is dedicated to the development of innovative techniques in minimally invasive colorectal  surgery.  

Prof. Spinelli is Associate Editor at Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, at Journal of Anus, Rectum  & Colon and was Associate Editor at Colorectal Disease (2014 – 2023). He is Member of the  Editorial Board of the Journal of Crohn’s Colitis and of Coloproctology.  

He authored/co-authored more than 390 Pubmed-indexed publications (IF > 3000, H Index Scopus  59, H Index Google Scholar 70). 

Prof. Spinelli is President Elect of the European Society of ColoProctology (ESCP) and is Fellow of  European Surgical Association (F-ESA), Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS), Fellow  of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (FASCRS) and Member of the International  Organization for the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD). 

In 2016 he was awarded with the Honorary Fellowship of the Czech Society of Surgery and is Honorary Member of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery (CBCD) since 2017.