Andrea Lauterio MD

Dr. Andrea Lauterio, MD, is board-certified in general surgery and specialty trained in abdominal organ transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. His expertise lie in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, primary and metastatic liver cancer, and minimally invasive procedures focused on robotic surgery. He serves as an Attending Surgeon at the Division of General Surgery & Transplantation – ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Milanese – Niguarda, Milan, Italy.

Dr. Lauterio was born in Italy on September 11, 1975. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Milan University School of Medicine on July 21, 2000. He completed his residency in General Surgery at the University School of Medicine of Milan on November 9, 2006.

In the same year, Dr. Lauterio was appointed staff surgeon in the Transplant unit of the ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Milanese – Niguarda, Milan, Italy. He received focused training on living donor liver transplantation with particular attention to the surgical technique and the immunosuppressive protocols, as a Visiting Surgeon, at the University of Pittsburgh (PA), Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute in 2003. He had the opportunity to access the robotic surgical training laboratory to practice and develop skills in advanced applications of the robotic system, as a Visiting Surgeon, at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Department of Surgery in 2017.

From 2015, Dr. Lauterio is a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (F.E.B.S.), division of Transplantation. He was a participant in several sponsored international multi centers trials conducted following the ICH-GCP requirements in the continuous update.

Dr. Lauterio has published in peer-reviewed professional journals such as Gastroenterology and Journal of Hepatology, and presented at major scientific conferences. Clinical interests include abdominal organ transplantation, living donor transplantation, robotic surgery, resection of primary and metastatic liver cancers, and multi-stage resection of complex liver lesions.

Dr. Lauterio’s current research involves the role of laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques in liver surgery and kidney procurement from living donors, the new strategies in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver metastases, grafts preservation, liver transplantation in HIV-positive recipients, organ donation after cardiac death, and policy issues regarding organ allocation.