Pierpaolo Sileri
Biography
Prof. Pierpaolo Sileri is the Director of the Colorectal Surgery Unit at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan. He is a Full Professor of General Surgery at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
In 1998, he graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, where he later specialized in Digestive System Surgery and Surgical Digestive Endoscopy in 2004. He also obtained a Ph.D. in Robotics and Computer Science Applied to Surgery in 2005. From 1999 to 2002, he trained at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and from 2003 to 2005, he continued his General Surgery training at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, UK.
Since 2020, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Temple University in Philadelphia (USA).
Prof. Pierpaolo Sileri's clinical and research activities focus on the digestive system, with a particular interest in colorectal surgery, favoring minimally invasive techniques. He specializes in colorectal cancer, diverticular disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and functional surgery, including pelvic organ prolapse and intestinal endometriosis, applying the latest technologies and techniques even in proctological diseases.
Prof. Pierpaolo Sileri is an expert in Robotic Surgery, mainly applied to the correction of pelvic floor defects, pelvic surgery, functional surgery, and the treatment of colon tumors.
Academically, he has published over 230 scientific articles, educational texts, and guidelines for scientific societies. He is actively involved in national and international research projects on colorectal diseases.
A member of many national and international scientific societies, he participates in scientific and editorial committees and is a speaker at national and international congresses.
He has also been involved in politics, serving as Deputy Minister of Health in the Conte II government and as Undersecretary of Health in the Draghi government. Elected as a senator in 2018, he completed his parliamentary term at the end of the legislature, in line with his commitment made at the beginning of his election.