Prof. Antonino Spinelli is the Director of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and Full Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University, Rozzano Milano. 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 – Charité, 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 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. Prof Spinelli is regularly invited speaker to National and International Meetings (more than 315 invited talks or lectures), particularly on minimally invasive treatment of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.
Professor Spinelli has developed several clinical research projects on the treatment of IBDs and of colon and rectum cancer, actively collaborating with many International Institutions, such as the Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, University of Oxford in UK and of Leuven in Belgium, Weill Cornell Medical Center and Columbia University of New York, University College of London, St Mark’s Hospital of London, Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic in USA. Professor Spinelli 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). In 2010 he took part in the Consensus Conference of OMS (WHO) in Zurich, during which the disability criteria of Crohn’s disease were identified. In 2013 and 2018 he took part in the Commission which drew up the first Guide Lines on Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis for the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization, published in January, 2015.
- Spinelli A, Foppa C, Bemelman WA, Tanis PJ, Carvello M, Hompes R. Intermuscular surgical dissection for rectal lesions by transanal minimally invasive surgery – a video vignette. Colorectal Dis. 2019 Oct 16. doi: 10.1111/codi.14875. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 31621152.
- Franchini Melani AG, Pandini RV, Barroso Lima M, Bertulucci P, Chacon Cosentino C, Spinelli A. The use of new technologies in facilitating the treatment in synchronous colorectal cancer: A Robotic Right Colectomy with Complete Mesocolic Excision and Local Transanal Resection – video vignette. Colorectal Dis. 2020 Jan 4. doi: 10.1111/codi.14948. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 31901215
- Carvello, M, Watfah, J, Włodarczyk, M, Spinelli A. The Management of the Hospitalized Ulcerative Colitis Patient: the Medical-Surgical Conundrum. Curr Gastroenterol Rep. 2020 Feb 10;22(3):11. doi: 10.1007/s11894-020-0750-1.
- Foppa C, Chien S Ng, Montorsi M, Spinelli A. Anastomotic leak in colorectal cancer patients: new insights and perspectives. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2020 Feb 24. pii: S0748-7983(20)30129-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2020.02.027.
- Spinelli A, Pellino G. COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives on an unfolding crisis. Br J Surg. 2020 Mar 19. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11627