Multiorgan Procurement for Transplantation

Paolo Aseni, after his degree in Medicine at the University of Milan in 1975, trained abroad in different centers in Germany and France: at the Medizinische Hochshule in Hannover in 1978, then at the Chirurgischen Zentrum in Munchen (1979), at the Uniklinik in Köln in the same year, at the Hopital Beaujon in Paris in 1980 and at the  Centre Hépato-Biliaire Paul Brousse a Villejuif in 1986. Since 1980 he's been working at the General and Transplantation Surgical Center at Niguarda Hospital in Milan, where he is currently Associate Surgeon and Responsible for the surgical training. Since 1989 he's been Assistant Professor for Anatomy and Human Macroscopic Morphology University of Medicine, Milan.

Antonino M. Grande got his degree in Medicine in 1980 and trained abroad at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. from 1982 to 1984. Since 1986 he is been working at the IRCCS Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Italy, in the Cardiac Surgery - Transplant Department.  Between 2000 and 2010 he's been teaching Surgical Anatomy at the University of Pavia. Dr Grande's main clinical interests include heart failure, heart, heart-lung and lung transplantations, pulmonary hypertension and mechanical circulatory support.

Luciano De Carlis got his degree in Milan in 1979 and trained as visiting fellow at the Transplant Surgery Center in Pittsburgh (USA) from 1984 to 1987 and again in 1988, studying particular aspects in the field of liver, kidney, pancreas, transplantation and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Another important experience abroad, this time as visiting professor, was at the University of Tokyo in 2001. Prof. De Carlis has been working since 1983 at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, specializing in particular in the field of renal, pancreas and liver transplantation as well as in hepatobiliary surgery. He is currently Director of the Niguarda Transpalnt Center at the Niguarda Hospital, where he introduced the first adult living donor liver transplantation program in Italy.