Affiliation: Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Corso Bramante 88-90, 10126, Turin (Italy), General Surgery 2U – Liver Transplant Unit

Damiano Patrono (1978) is an attending surgeon at the General Surgery 2U – Liver Transplant Center, AOU Città Della Salute e Della Scienza di Torino (Turin, Italy), with interest in liver and pancreas transplantation, liver preservation, and minimally invasive HPS surgery. He obtained his medical qualification in 2003 and completed his residency in General Surgery in 2009 at the University of Turin. He also trained in Nice (France), Brussels (Belgium), and Oxford (United Kingdom). In 2015, he obtained his PhD in technologies applied to surgical sciences at the University of Turin. As a technology enthusiast, he is a convinced promoter of machine perfusion and other dynamic preservation techniques in liver transplantation.