Prof. Roberto Troisi

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1989	Master in Piano at the State Music Academy “D. Cimarosa”, Avellino
1989	MBBS in Medicine at the Medical School  Federico II , Naples-Italy
1994	Graduated in Abdominal Surgery Federico II University Naples
1994	University Master Laparoscopic Surgery, Nice - France
1998	Graduated General Surgery University of Ghent, Belgium
2003	PhD Biomedical Sciences Ghent University
2009-2018	Director HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery Ghent University Hospital
2018-2019	Chairman Department of HPB Small Bowel and Liver Transplant Surgery, King Faisal Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh Saudi Arabia Aggregate Professor King Faisal University
2020 to date	Professor of Surgery, Chairman General, HPB and Transplant Surgery Federico II University Hospital, Naples – Italy, Via Pansini, 5, 80134 Tel: +39.081.7462776; Fax: +39.081.7462461

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND HONORS

2004	Appointment Associate Professor Ghent University
2007	Honorary member European Surgical Association (ESA)
2008	President Belgian Transplant Society, member EuroTransplant Foundation
2009	Editorial member Liver Transplantation, Hepatogastroenterology, Int. J of Hepatology
2012	Publication Committee member American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
2012	Honorary member European commission of Surgery
2013	Council European Liver Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA)
2016	Vice President ELITA
2017	President Belgian HPB Chapter
2017	Appointment Full Professor Ghent University
2018	Appointment Full Professor Federico II University Naples
2018	Member Industry Committee, International HPB Association (IHPBA)
2018	Aggregate Professor Al Faisal University, Ryiadh
2019	Executive member Council International Liver Laparoscopic Society (ILLS)
2020	Executive member AICEP (Italian Chapter HPB Surgery)
2023	Board member international Living Donor Liver Transplant Group

MEMBERSHIPS

• European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) European Liver Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA) International Liver Transplant society (ILTS)

• European Surgical Association (ESA)

• International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists (IASGO) International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA)

• International Laparoscopic Liver Society (ILLS) International Living Donor Liver Transplant Group (iLDLTG) International Society Liver Surgeons (ISLS)

 

MEETINGS ORGANIZATION AND EXPERT INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES

• Co-President International Small for Size Syndrome Ghent (2002,2005,2007)
• Co-President International Split Liver Courses Ghent (2009, 2012, 2015, 2018)
• President ALLIVER Masterclasses (lap liver surgery) (EACCME) (alliver.org) (2010>2017) and ALLIVER SAUDI ARABIA (2019)
• Chair living donor liver transplantation International Symposium Laparoscopic Liver Surgery, Morioka 2014 (Japan)
• Founder BReLLS, Belgian Registry on Lap Liver Surgery, 2016
• Seoul, IASGO meeting Monothematic Gallbladder adenocarcinoma
• Laparoscopic lymph node dissection for gallbladder carcinoma (2016)
• European Guidelines on Laparoscopic Liver Surgery, Southampton –UK
• Working group on cirrhosis, PS segments and living donor hepatectomy (2017)
• First world consensus conference on minimally invasive donor hepatectomy, Seoul
• Working group on registries and accreditation (2019)
• Member ILTS-iLDLTG-ISLT International Guidelines on Small for Size Syndrome in LDLT
• Transplantation; Coordinator Working Group IV; (Chennai-India, January 2023).
• Co-Chairman 4th World Congress ILLS Rome September 13-15; 2023
• Chairman 1^st International Conference on Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy and Liver Transplantation, Naples Sept 16, 2023
• 1st International Consensus Conference on Robotic Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery 7-9 Dec 2023; Chair Panel 4: “Safety”.

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS 

• Liver Transplantation (2011-2015)
• Hepatogastroenterology (2012-2015) International J of Hepatology (2015-2017)
• Guest Editor Supplement Liver Transplantation Volume 9 Issue 9; 2003 Guest Editor Transplantation Proceedings Volume: 22 Supplement: 2; 2009
• Guest Editor Monography on ICG-GUIDED LIVER SURGERY Minerva Chirurgica 2021 Board Hepatoma Research, (2021 onwards)

INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL PROCTORSHIPS 

2010	Live Surgery Erasme Hospital (Free University) Brussels BELGIUM
2011	Live Surgery Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi VIETNAM
2011	Tutor first LDLT Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, UK
2012	Live Surgery Ospedale Bambino Gesù, ROMA
2013	Live Surgery at the King Faisal Hospital & Research Center, Riad, Saudi Arabia
2014	Live liver surgery Hamburg University Germany
2015-2016	Proctorship in lap liver surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation Doha-QATAR
2016	Visiting Expert Program (Consultantship) SINGAPORE General Hospital
2016	Proctorship laparoscopic liver surgery National Cancer Center Batna City-ALGERIA
2016	Proctorship laparoscopic liver surgery “Centre Pierre Marie Curie” ALGIERS
2016	Live liver surgery OSLO (RijksHospitalet) NORWAY
2018	Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery at the Federico II University – NAPLES
2018	Minimally Invasive live donor hepatectomy program in Saudi Arabia (KFSHRC)

 

SPECIAL CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS 

2000 First clinical application of hemodynamic modulation in the world for the treatment of “small for size syndrome”

(SFS) when transplanting partial grafts (Splenic Artery Ligation)

2001 First Two Living Donor Liver Transplants at the Cardarelli Hospital-Napoli (2nd absolute case in Italy)

2002 “World First” Liver Tx without immunosuppression after Stem Cell Tolerance induction 2003 Introduction of “hemiportocaval shunts” in living donor liver transplantation with SFS grafts

2003 First clinical application in the world of antigen-specific immunoadsorption for ABO incompatible LDLT

2009 “Belgian First” Laparoscopic Living Donor Hepatectomy for paediatric transplantation

2012 “World First” Laparoscopic Full-left Donor Hepatectomy for calculated SFSG implantation in adult LDLT

2013 First robotic-assisted liver & pancreas resections in Belgium

2013 First Laparoscopic Living Donor Hepatectomy for paediatric liver transplant in Saudi Arabia 2014 First Laparoscopic Full-left Donor Hepatectomy for adult recipients in Saudi Arabia

2015 First robotic resections of a choledocal cyst and a splenic artery aneurysm in Belgium

2015, 2016 First series of successful laparoscopic liver resections in Qatar (Hamad Medical Center) 2016, 2017 First series of successful laparoscopic liver resections in Algeria (Batna City and Algiers) 2018- First laparoscopic right lobe donor hepatectomy in Saudi Arabia

2019- First series of robotic pancreatectomies in Saudi Arabia

2020- Implementation of laparoscopic and robotic liver, pancreas and biliary procedures at the Federico II University Hospital;

2020- Use of 3D rendering in complex cases and ICG-guided liver surgery in open, laparoscopic and robotic approaches;

2021- First experiences with Holograms in liver surgery;

2021- Starting robotic living donor nephrectomy program & transplantation

 

CLINICAL TRIALS 

1. Prograft Neoral in Liver Transplantation (Co-INV)

2. Thacocomb hemostatic fleece in liver resections (Co-INV)

3. Abelcet study in liver transplantation (Co-INV)

4. Sirolimus immunosuppression in liver transplantation (Co-INV)

5. MASTER study in liver transplantation (Co-INV)

6. New Tachocomb study on liver resections (Co-INV)

7. List 2C Study in liver transplantation (Co-INV)

8. MR4 Prograft (PI.)

9. Silver Study (PI.)

10. Certican Study (Co-INV)

11. Diamond Study (Co-INV)

12. Immunosuppression weaning (Co-INV)

13. Somatostatin in Liver Transplantation (P.I.) (2010)

14. Veriset Hemostatic Patch – Covidien (P.I.) (2010)

15. Profibrix Hemostatic Patch (P.I.) (2012)

16. Maribavir Study (P.I.) (2012)

17. Orange II plus (RCT) in laparoscopic liver surgery (2014)

18. CAEB Novartis (P.I.) (2014)

19. Mebrofenin to assess liver function in hepatectomy (Co-INV) (2015)

20. Evaluation of the hemostatic patch EVARREST in pediatric liver resections (PI) (2015)

21. CLIMB study in liver surgery for CRLM (Co-INV) (2016)

22. DREAM study in liver surgery for CRLM (PI)

23. BRELLS Belgian Registry on Laparoscopic Liver Surgery (PI)

24. DHOPE machine perfusion in DCD liver grafts (Co-INV) (2017)

25. Role of Hepatobiliary scintigraphy in ALPPS procedures (on behalf of the ALPPS Registry- ALPPS.net) (PI) (2017)

26. Somatostatin as inflow modulator in LDLT (NCT04107428) (2020)

PUBLICATIONS

• Professor Troisi is author of more than 380 peer reviewed articles with a H-index of 55 and more than 13,400 citations (update December 2023)

• 16 chapter in books

• More than 200 invited lectures