Who we are

Over the last 10 years Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) was being shown to be safe and effective and was, therefore, being adopted by an increasing number of surgeons, taking over the role of open surgery for the treatment of colorectal diseases.
Nevertheless MIS requires adequate training and involves established learning curve in order to be mastered. The purpose of MICORS is to encourage and facilitate the safe implementation of MIS and its application to the different areas of colorectal surgery.
The future of surgery will not be like the past ”not the strongest but the most adaptive to change will survive”. Innovation in surgery is not to pave the way for something new but for something better and there is only one stakeholder: our patient.
MICORS organizes specifically designed international courses on all the areas of MIS colorectal surgery from basic skills to the latest cutting-edge technology supported by highly qualified international faculties.

Prof. Antonino Spinelli is the Director of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, and is Full Professor of Surgery at the Humanitas University.
He graduated as MD in 2001 at the University of Milano. During his education he was awarded with several scholarships; he trained for two years at the University of Berlin – Charitè, at the Dept of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery. He obtained his PhD on Surgical Physiopathology discussing a thesis on enhanced recovery for laparoscopic colorectal surgery in 2011.
Prof. Spinelli is focused on advanced minimally invasive techniques, included single-port surgery and transanal surgery (TAMIS, TATME, TTSS), and has a special interest on enhanced postoperative patient recovery. Furthermore, his Division is a referral center for colorectal disease and is well known for sphincter saving procedures for rectal cancer and for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

Prof. Spinelli is currently Assistant General Secretary of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and Board Member of the Guidelines Committee (GuiCom) of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO).
Prof. Spinelli is Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (FASCRS), Honorary Fellow of the Czech Society of Surgery (CSS), and Honorary Member of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery (CBCD).
He is a Member of the International Organization for the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD) and several other national and international scientific societies.
He serves as Associate Editor for Colorectal Disease (Journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons of England, of the European Society of Coloproctology and of the Spanish Society of Coloproctology – Asociación Española de Coloproctología), Diseases of the Colon and Rectum (official journal of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons), Journal of the Anus, Rectum and Colon (official journal of the Japan Society of Coloproctology).
He is Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Crohn’s Colitis (official journal of the European Crohn’s Colitis Organization), Advisory Board of Coloproctology (official journal of the German Society for Coloproctology – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Koloproktologie) and Editorial Board Member of Updates in Surgery (official journal of the Italian Society of Surgery – Società Italiana di Chirurgia).
He authored/co-authored more than 165 Pubmed indexed papers, with an IF > 785 and an H Index of 36 (Google Scholar) and several book chapters.
Prof Spinelli is regularly invited speaker to National and International Meetings (more than 270 invited talks or lectures), particularly on minimally invasive treatment of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.

Unit of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano Milan, Italy

Humanitas: Prof. Antonino Spinelli

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