Salvatore Giovanni Gruttadauria

Dr. Salvatore Gruttadauria is the Chairman of the Department Abdominal Center at the IRCCS ISMETT UMPC Italy in Palermo Italy.

He is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgery of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Professor of Surgery at the University of Catania in Italy.

Dr. Gruttadauria was trained at ISMETT by the T. Starzl transplant team and became the first Sicilian surgeon to perform a liver transplant in Sicily. In 2021, he is the first surgeon in the world to transplant a liver from a SARS COVID positive donor into an adult recipient.

President of the 2024 national meeting of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantation, has performed more than 8,000 major surgical procedures of which more than 1000 organ transplants. He is the author of more than 362 scientific publications with 43 of h index.