Micaela Piccoli

MICAELA PICCOLI , MD, FACS

Micaela Piccoli was born in Rome on the 23rd of April 1967. In 1991 she graduated with first class honours. The 11st November 1996 she completed her surgical training, as resident, at the General Surgery Department of the University of Modena and she obtained a General Surgery Specialty.

From 2008 to 2015 she was the Chief of Endocrine Surgery Unit in the OCSAE (Ospedale Civile Sant’Agostino Estense) of Modena Italy. From April 2015 she is the Head of General, Emergency Surgery and New Technologies Unit in OCB (Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara) of AOU (Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria) di Modena. She is the Director of National School of Mini-invasive Surgery SIC (Italian Society of Surgery). She is Founder and now Member of the National Directive Board of LEADS (Donne Leader in Sanità- Women Leader in Healthcare System). She is Adjunct Professor in Postgraduate Thoracic Surgery Course UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). She is Honorary Regional Editor of Artificial Intelligence Surgery and Member of Editorial Board of Updates in Surgery. She is Fellow of American College of Surgeons (FACS)

Ordinary member of numerous scientific societies where he has held various positions (SIC – vice president from 2018 to 2020, ACOI -member of national directive board from 2011 to 2017, SICE – member of national directive board from 2006 to 2009 -, EAES, MMESA, ISHES, CRSA). Honorary member of the Egyptian Society of Surgery.

She is the author of numerous publications about topics of General Surgery with special interest in Laparoscopic and Robotics Surgery. She performed, in September 2010, the first trans-axillary robotic thyroidectomy in Italy (with an updated case history of more than 600 treated cases). In 2019 she published the largest series of robotic transaxillary thyroidectomies in the west world. She performs routinely, in Italy and abroad, tutoring and proctoring regarding advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery.