Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas

Marco Del Chiaro, MD, PhD, graduated in Medicine and Surgery (Magna cum Laude) from Pisa University, Italy, in 1997. His subsequent training included participation on the course "Pancreatic Cancer: from Genes to Treatment" at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, and his doctorate focused on use of the Da Vinci Robotic System in pancreatic surgery. Since 2010, Dr. Del Chiaro has moved to Sweden where he now is Associate Professor of Surgery and pancreatic surgeon in the Division of Surgery, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Dr. Del Chiaro is Founder and Coordinator of the European Study Group on Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas (United European Gastroenterology) and is Coordinator of the Italian Registry of Familial Pancreatic Cancer. In 2013 he won the American College of Surgeons' International Guest Scholarship and he has previously received a number of other awards, including repeat prizes from the Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas. He is lead or co-author of almost 70 original articles in peer-reviewed journals.