Michele Colledan

Prof Michele Colledan is a recently (October 2023) retired HPB and Transplant Surgeon. He graduated at the University of Milano (Italy )in 1979 and completed his specialization in General as well as in Vascular Surgery, at the same University, in 1984 and 1989 respectively He served as Professor of Surgery at Università di Milano-Bicocca and has led for over 20 years the HPB Surgey as well as the programs of adult and pediatric liver, intestine, pancreas, lung and kidney transplantation at the Giovanni XXIII Hospital (Formerly Ospedali Riuniti) in Bergamo (Italy), as head of the department of surgery and more recently of organ failure and transplantation. The Liver transplant program he led was -and stil is- one of the most active in Italy and among the most active worldwide for the pediatric population, leader in the application of the split liver technique and its variants, that Prof Colledan personally pioneered, performing and describing, the first successful case of full right/full left liver splitting. Besides liver transplantation, Prof Colledan pioneered in his country small bowel and multivisceral pediatric transplantation, as well as pediatric lung transplantation including the split lung technique. He performed the first and only living donor lobar lung transplantation in Italy, among the very few in Europe. He is author or co-author of 260 publications reported in Scopus. H index: 44 He was member of the ELITA board and of the North Italian Transplant program board. He currently is part time consultant at Ospedale Pederzoli (private hospital ) in Peschiera del Garda (Italy) since January 2024