Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials

Gaetano Gallo is a Researcher at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University “Magna Græcia”, Catanzaro (Italy). In 2018 he completed a clinical training fellowship in IBD and colorectal tumors at the University of Amsterdam – Academic Medical Center. In 2016 and 2018 he has been awarded a fellowship by the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO) and by the Japanese Society of Coloproctology (JSCP). His clinical and research interests include haemorrhoidal disease, rectovaginal and perianal fistula fistulas, minimally invasive treatment of pilonidal sinus (EPSiT), rectal prolapse, colorectal tumors and IBD as well as functional pelvic floor diseases. He has also a special interest in translational research (microRNA and microbiome).Since 2017, he is member of the Cohort Studies Committee of European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and Y-SICCR (Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery) Chair. Gaetano Gallo has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Colorectal and General Surgery. Moreover, he is also reviewer for the most important european journals in the field of Colorectal Surgery and Proctology.

Christian Zanza is a consultant in Anesthesia-Critical Care Medicine and consultant in Emergency- Internal Medicine in two hospitals: 1-Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Antonio and Cesare Arrigo Teaching Hospital, Alessandria (Italy); 2- “Foundation of New Hospital Michele and Pietro Ferrero”. During the residency program in Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, he was Critical Care Fellow in London at St.George’s University Hospital for one year and during the second residency in Emergency Medicine, he was an assistant professor in Los Angeles for two years at the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Southern California. In 2017 he was awarded PhD in Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Sapienza University of Rome where he studied many aspects of the interaction between anaesthesia drugs. Christian Zaza is the author of many publications in peer-reviewed international Journals. His main contributions are focused on: invasive and non-invasive ventilation, treatment of acute severe cardiac diseases, biological markers of cardiac impairment and sepsis, use of POCUS in emergency settings.