Alessandro Gronchi MD

Dr. Alessandro Gronchi was born in Livorno, Italy. He received his primary and secondary school education in Milan and graduated from Liceo Classico G. Carducci with merit. He received his MD from Milan University (high honors) in 1992, and then completed his residency training in General Surgery c/o San Raffaele General Hospital in Milan. During his residency he served the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for two years, working full time at Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda. He then completed his training with a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan in 1998. He joined the faculty in the Department of Surgery at Istituto Nazionale Tumori as attending surgeon in the Sarcoma Service in 1999. He visited Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 2002. He has been chair of the Sarcoma Service at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori since 2001.