Head of the Paediatric Department Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation at ISMETT – UPMC hospital in Palermo (Sicily) Associate Editor Journal Paediatric Transplantation.

Graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (Brussels, Belgium) in 1980 and trained in surgery, paediatric surgery and liver transplantation at the Cliniques St Luc (Brussels, Belgium). Clinical Consultant posts were successively at Brussels paediatric liver transplantation Center (1988-1998), and at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (1998-2003). Professor of paediatric surgery since 2003, he then held the post of liver transplantation program director at the Cliniques St Luc Brussels (Head of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation Department / 2003-2007), and at the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital Rome (Head of Surgery and Transplantation Department / 2007-2016). Since 2016, he has been working at ISMETT – UPMC hospital in Palermo (Sicily) . He is associate editor at the Journal “Paediatric Transplantation”. His other interests and research topics are in the field of liver transplantation and surgery, extrahepatic portal hypertension and portal system malformations.