Dapri Giovanni

Personal Data
Nationality: Italian
Date of Birth: 6 May 1975
Place of Birth: Treviglio (BG), Italy
Email: giovanni@dapri.net
Web: www.dapri.net

Education & Training

1994-2000 : Medical School at the University of Milan, Italy
2000-2006 : Residency in General Surgery at the University of Milan, Italy
2006-….    : Physical Doctor (PhD) at Free University of Brussels, University of Europe, Belgium

1998 : internship at the Department of Surgery of the University of California San Diego, San Diego CA, US (Chief: Pr. A.R.Moossa)
1999 : internship at the Department of Surgery of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle WA, US (Chief: Pr. C.A.Pellegrini)
2002 : fellowship at the Service of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco, Principaute of Monaco (Chief: Pr. C.Huguet)
2004-2006 : fellowship at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium  (Director and Chief: Pr. G.B.Cadière)
 

Academic Experiences

Award Congress Session :
- 16th Annual Congress of EAES (June 13 2008, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 109e Congrès Français de Chirurgie, session ICYLS (October 3 2007, Paris, France)
- 108e Congrès Français de Chirurgie (October 3 2006, Paris, France)
- 14th Annual Congress of EAES (September 14 2006, Berlin, Germany)
- 9th Annual Meeting of ESS (November 12 2005, Vienna, Austria)
- 107e Congrès Français de Chirurgie (September 30 2005, Paris, France)
- 13th Annual Congress of EAES (Juin 3 2005, Venice, Italy)

- MISCJU 2008 Award for Technical and Scientific Research (Caceres, Spain, October 17-18, 2008)
- WCES Young Investigators Award (YIA) at 11th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery (Yokohama, Japan,
  September 2-6, 2008)
- EAES Educational Grant at 10th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery (Berlin, Germany, September 13- 
  16, 2006)

International and National Congress participations :
- 120 oral presentations 
- 80 Congress abstracts published
- 12 posters
- 8 moderator of session
- 2 videoconferences

Author and Co-author :
- 45 scientific papers on reviewed and no-reviewed Journals 
- 18 book chapters
- Atlas of Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery (with 2 DVDs) (printed in October 2007, ISBN Nr. 978-2-9600728)
- 3 DVDs of the European School of Laparoscopic Surgery:
          -Minimal invasive esophagectomy and gastrectomy for cancer
          -Laparoscopic colorectal surgery
          -Laparoscopic hernia repair

Actually

- Assistant Professor at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
- Secretary of the European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
- Course-Chair of “Single-incision Surgery Workshop”, "Bariatric Surgery Workshop","Colorectal Surgery Workshop", and "General Laparoscopic Surgery Course" of the European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
- Associate Editor of  "The European Journal of Coelio-Surgery" - "Le Journal de Coelio-Chirurgie", Valence, France
- Member of SAGES Scientific Committee for Endoluminal, Bariatric and Research
- Vice-President of the International Club of Young Laparoscopic Surgeons (ICYLS)

- Member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
- Member of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)
- Member of the Belgian Association of Bariatric Surgery (BABS)
- Member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
- Member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)
- Member of the Belgian Group for Endoscopic Surgery (BGES)
- Member of the Association Française de Chirurgie (AFC)
- Member of the International Club of Young Laparoscopic Surgeons (ICYLS)

Surgical procedures

Personal realization of more than 700 laparoscopic procedures as surgeon :

FOREGUT SURGERY: fundoplication for reflux/hiatal hernia, total and partial gastrectomy

OBESITY SURGERY: adjustable gastric banding, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, duodenal switch, biliopancreatic diversion      

REOPERATION IN OBESITY SURGERY: conversion from gastric banding to gastric bypass, conversion from vertical gastroplasty to gastric bypass, conversion from  gastric banding to sleeve gastrectomy, conversion from gastric bypass to original anatomy, revision of obesity surgery for occlusion, bleeding, ventral hernia, haital hernia and weight regain.

COLORECTAL SURGERY: right hemicolectomy, left hemicolectomy, segmentary colectomy, anterior resection of the rectum,

ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY: pre-peritoneal inguinal hernia repair, transabdominal inguinal hernia repair, ventral hernia repair, diaphragmatic hernia repair

MISCELLANEOUS: single-incision transumbilical cholecystectomy, appendectomy, small bowel resection, splenectomy