E U R O P E A N C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E F O R M A T PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Address Telephone Fax E-mail MATTEO RAVAIOLI Nationality Italian Date of birth WORK EXPERIENCE 200-2009: surgeon staff with fixed-term contract at the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation directed by Prof. A.D. Pinna, S.Orsola Hospital, Bologna. 2009-2010: surgeon staff with permanent contract at the Hospital of Rimini, at the Department of General Surgery directed by Dr. Gian Franco Francioni. 2010-2015: surgeon staff with permanent contract at the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation of S. Orsola Hospital in Bologna, directed by Prof. A.D. Pinna. He is involved in the transplant activity, HPB surgery and general surgery. Since 2015 he has the responsibility of the surgical kidney transplant program. He performed or assisted more than 2000 operations; the principal procedures were: -liver resection (> 250 cases); -liver transplantation (>100 cases); -kideny transplantation (> 300 cases, including living); -living donor nephrectomies or nephrectomies for disease ( > 100 cases).
He performed also general surgery procedures like laparoscopic appendicectomy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, colo-rectal surgery, hernia repair and gastric resections.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1993-1999: Medical School student at the University of Bologna. Summer 1996: Visiting Faculty at the Department of Vascular Surgery at the McMaster University McMaster in Hamilton (Canada), directed by Prof. Claudio Cina. Summer 1998: Visiting Faculty at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Institute Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London, directed by Prof. R.C.N. Williamson. 1999: Graduation cum laude at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Medicine. 2000: habilitation to the profession of medical doctor and certification at the professional provincial register. Summer 2002: Visiting Faculty at the Department of Liver Transplantation at the King's College Hospital in London, directed by Prof. Nigel Heaton. Summer 2003: Visiting Faculty at the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the Hospital of Beaujon in Paris, directed by Prof. Jack Belghiti. 2000-2005: residency in General Surgery at S. Orsola Hospital in Bologna directed by Prof. Antonino Cavallari and from 2005 by Prof. A.D. Pinna. 2005: surgeon staff with fixed-term contract at the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation directed by Prof. A.D. Pinna, S.Orsola Hospital, Bologna. 2005-2008: PhD in Medical-Surgical gastroenterological and transplantation science at the University of Bologna. 2006: Visiting Faculty at the department of Hepato-biliary Surgery at the Asan Medical Center in Seoul, directed by Prof. Sung-Gyu Lee, completing the training in hepatobiliary surgery and living-donor liver transplantation. 2009: Attended the course of hepatobiliary surgery about the procedures of split liver transplantation, in Ghent, Belgium, directed by Prof. Troisi. 2009-2010: surgeon staff with permanent contract at the Hospital of Rimini, at the Department of General Surgery directed by Dr. Gian Franco Francioni. From 2010: surgeon staff with permanent contract at the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation of S. Orsola Hospital in Bologna, directed by Prof. A.D. Pinna.
ACADEMIC COMPETENCES His h-index is 36, according to Google Scholar and he is author or coauthors of more than 175 papers indexed on Pub-Med with a total impact factors of more than 637. He had the habilitation for associate professor since 2013 and for full professor since 2017. The main field of research are liver transplantation and liver resection. He recently developed a machine for the organ perfusion and he had national grant for ongoing study in this topic. He is a coordinator of a study on micro-rna and hepatocellular carcinoma with regional grant. He attended the following studies: Immunological, virological and oncological follow-up of the liver recipients; Programma di ricerca Regione-Università 2007-2009; Clinical Investigator. Hepatic preconditioning: molecular mechanisms responsible for the induction of tolerance to ischemia-reperfusion and clinical applications in liver resection and transplantation; PRIN 2004; Clinical Investigator. Molecular classification of hepatocellular carcinoma to select the more appropriate surgical treatment: liver transplantation or liver resection; Programma di ricerca Regione-Università 2010-2012 - Bando Giovani Ricercatori; Principal Investigator. MOTHER TONGUE ITALIAN OTHER LANGUAGES Reading skills Writing skills Verbal skills ENGLISH
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Invited speaker at the following meeting: -10th World Congress of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association; Paris 2012; -18th International Liver Transplant Society; San Francisco 2012; -1st European Meeting of Young Surgeons; Rome 2009; -20th Japanese society of small bowel transplantation; Osaka 2008. Reviewer for the following journal: -Liver Transplantation; -Clinical Transplantation; -Digestive and Liver Disease; -Journal of Hepatology; -Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy; -Journal of Transplantation; -Journal of the American College of Surgeons; -Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases; -Journal of Clinical Oncology; -Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology; -Surgical Science; -Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology; -Updates in Surgery; -PLOS ONE; - Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology -Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases.