Simone Famularo MD, PhD

Dr. Simone Famularo M.D., PhD Stud, is a liver surgeon and a researcher in the field of primary liver tumors. Part of his training was conducted at the School of Medicine and Surgery of the NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), and he attended as a Fellow at the Royal Marsden Hospital of London (UK) in the hepato-pancreatic and biliary surgical unit. He achieved the post-graduate degree in General Surgery at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy), and now he is a PhD Student in Data Science in Medicine at the Humanitas University (Rozzano, Italy), working on Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. The main interest of the doctor is about intraoperative ultrasound-guided liver surgery, and his research field is specifically on hepatocarcinoma and biliary tumours. His research activities are prevalently focused on the recurrence after curative treatments for HCC, which he investigated by both clinical and translational approaches. He is the principal investigator of a multicentric Italian study about the phenotyping of circulating-tumor-cells (CTC) derived from hepatocarcinoma. He is also the national coordinator of the HE.RC.O.LE.S. Group, the Italian national register on HCC surgery, which connects more than 30 hospitals. His scientific work have received nine awards achieved in national and international meetings on liver tumor. He is an active member of the most relevant liver societies, as the Italian society of HPB surgery (AICEP), EASL, IHPBA, and the Italian association for the study of the Liver (AISF), where he is a member of the special interest group on systemic therapies for HCC.