Ugo Elmore

Dr. Ugo Elmore is the Director of the Strategic Program for Oncological and Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Digestive System and Peritoneum in the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery of the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele under the supervision of Professor Riccardo Rosati. He is also Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Nursing at Vita Salute San Raffaele University.

Ugo Elmore graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1996 from the Sapienza University of Rome, specialized in general surgery in 2001, and received his PhD in General Surgery and Endocrinology in 2005 from the same institute.

Following his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Elmore spent two important periods abroad in the Department of Laparoscopic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and in the Department of Surgical Oncology at the Washington Cancer Institute.

His area of the greatest clinical interest is in surgery of the digestive system, a sector in which he applies new techniques and technologies in minimally invasive surgery. In particular, Dr. Elmore treats pathologies of the esophagus and stomach, hepatobiliary and colorectal pathologies with a minimally invasive approach, as well as a traditional approach, both in neoplasms and in benign or functional diseases. In the context of endocrine surgery, he treats the pathology of the adrenal glands with laparoscopic access. He collaborates with fellow hematologists to stage hemolymphoproliferative diseases and perform laparoscopic splenectomy. He developed and improved combined methods of laparoscopy and endoscopy for the treatment of intravisceral lesions of the digestive tract.

In addition, Ugo Elmore has also developed a surgical day hospital: in this mode of hospitalization, he performs cholecystectomy and laparoscopic abdominal wall repair, as well as laparoscopic abdominal wall plastic surgery under local anesthesia. He has experience in the treatment of proctological pathology with various standard methods for the treatment of hemorrhoids and rectal prolapse in the mode of day surgery and one-day surgery.

Dr. Elmore's scientific and research activities have always been in the field of pathologies of the upper and lower digestive tract. There are several multicenter trials in which he participates as principal investigator and co-investigator in collaboration with various national and international centers.

He is a member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), the Italian Society of Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery (SICE), the Italian Society of Surgery (SIC), the Italian Association of Hospital Surgeons (ACOI) and an honorary member of the Córdoba Association of Surgery – Argentina (ACC).

For several years he has been coordinating advanced training courses in advanced laparoscopic surgery dedicated to the training of fellow surgeons from different parts of Italy and Europe. He has more than 58 publications in international journals.