Bernardo Rocco MD

Prof. Bernardo Rocco was born in Milan, on 31 October 1973. Graduated in 1998 (110/119 cum laude) from the University of Milan, Italy. He posts graduated in Urology in 2003 (70/70 cum laude) and registered with the state medical board of Milan, Italy, and Switzerland. In 2009 he had one-year research and clinical fellowship in Robotic Surgery at Global Robotics Institute, Celebration (FL).

From 2003 to 2011 we worked as Medical Assistants at the Department of Urology at Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan; during 2009-2011 he was Deputy Director and Director of Surgical Robotic School at the same Institution. From 2011 to November 2016 he worked as First Level Medical Executive at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan. On November 2016 he became Associate Professor in Urology at the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia and First Level Medical Executive at Nuovo Ospedale Civile Sant’ Agostino Estense di Baggiovara, Modena, Italy.

Since November 2018 he is the Chief of the Department of Urology at the University of Modena, Italy, and a Full Professor in Urology at the same Institution.

He is a mentor in robotic surgery – in both adults and pediatrics – at national and international urological units and performed several live cases of robotic procedures; he is a co-inventor of the posterior reconstruction technique (Rocco’s stitch) and promoter of its use during minimally invasive radical prostatectomy.