Alessandro Zerbi is currently the Director of the Pancreatic Surgery Unit at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano (Milan, Italy) and he is Full Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University. He graduated and completed his residency in General Surgery at the State University of Milan. From 1987 to 2003 he worked as general surgeon at the Surgical Department of San Raffaele Hospital of Milan directed by Professor Di Carlo.
He broadened his knowledge on pancreatic surgery during stages at MGH, Boston (1988, Prof Warshaw) and at Ulm Hospital, Germany (1990 and 1995, Prof Beger). From 2004 to 2009 he directed the Pancreatic Surgery Unit of San Raffaele Hospital. Since 2010 he is the chief of Pancreatic Surgery at the Humanitas Cancer Center. He performed as first surgeon more than 3.000 pancreatic resections; his Unit currently performs about 200 pancreatic and duodenal resections/year. From 2015 to 2017 he was the President of the Italian Association of Pancreatology (AISP). He currently coordinates the Screening Program for Familiar Pancreatic Cancer in Italy and the Italian Group forminimally invasive pancreatic surgery (IGoMIPS). He is author of more than 300 scientific articles, official H index (Scopus): 61.