Who is Sergio Alfieri, the surgeon who operates the Pope

2021-07-04T17:36:51.375Z

It will be Professor Sergio Alfieri to operate Pope Francis for a scheduled surgery for a symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon. Alfieri, 55, is part of the school of Giovanni Battista Doglietto, who has been head of the Digestive Surgery Division of Gemelli since it was established in 1996, and in 2020 he was appointed by the pontiff as director of the Fas, Healthcare Fund of the Vatican. Head of the Gemelli Digestive Surgery Complex Operating Unit, Alfieri is also Coordinator of the Colon Rectum and Pancreas Surgery Center of the Polyclinic and full professor of General Surgery since 2018 at Cattolica. With various experiences abroad, in the US and in Great Britain, among other things,is a founding member of the National School of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery and a member of the board of directors of the Italian Society of Surgery and has developed minimally invasive techniques (laparoscopic and robotic) with a percentage that today stands at 85% applied to color surgery rectal.