Scrub Nurse in Minimally Invasive and Robotic General Surgery (PDF)

Experimental and Clinical Medicine. He is Coordinator of the PhD in Human Health of the Politecnica della Marche He is currently a member of the Academic Senate. From October 2021 he holds the position of President of the Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery and New Technologies (SICE) He directed the graduate school in General Surgery for three years. He boasts over 10,000 interventions as first operator, of which more than 70% with minimally invasive techniques.
Wanda Petz, MD is a surgical oncologist working at the European Institute of Oncology in Milano. She began her surgical residency in Italy and then moved to Paris, France, for the last three years of residency and for a total of six years.In France her interests focused on minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery but she collected a wide experience even on general and emergency surgery working in large university hospitals.Since 2011 she is an attending surgeon at the European Institute of Oncology where her activity is mainly dedicated to colorectal cancer surgery.She has a large experience in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, she is member of the faculty and tutor for the Italian School of Robotic Surgery in Grosseto. She has been member of the Executive Board of the SICE (Società Italiana di Chirurgia Endoscopica) from 2015 to 2021 and Treasurer of the society from 2019 to 2021. She is a member of the Technology Commettee of the EAES (European Asosciation for Endoscopic Surgery).
Alberto Arezzo, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Torino, Italy, under Mario Morino, he has a long clinical experience in minimally invasive surgery and colorectal cancer. Educated at the University of Tuebingen under Gerhard Buess, he was initiated to surgery through the transanal approach first and to design operative techniques and devices for flexible endoscopy, becoming a pioneer of Natural Orifices Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES). His interest in the field of technologies included the application of robotics and the development of microrobots for endoluminal surgery (see RED - Robot for Endoscopic Dissection patent). He is Research Lead at Minimally Invasive Therapy & Innovation Centre, University of Torino. Former Chair of the Technology Committee, he is now General Secretary of the European Association Endoscopic Surgery (EAES).

Salvatore Casarano, Msn, RN Currently, Nursing Professor in Bari University. He obtained his degree in nursing in 1982 and subsequently obtained the masters in nursing coordination. He is Nursing Coordinator in multidisciplinary operating room block at the "Pia Fondazione Panico" hospital in Tricase (Lecce). He was the President of Italian Operating Room Nurse Association (A.I.C.O.). Currently scientific coordinator of AICO.