Paolo MICCOLI ItalyProfessor Emeritus University of Pisa ItalyAsian Institute of Thyroid Cancer

Paolo Miccoli, born in Italy in 1947. 1987 to 2017 Professor General Surgery Pisa University, Italy 2002-2010 - Director Department of Surgery. Former Chief of Center for Endocrinology and Endocrine Surgery of the University of Pisa ¤ Course Director for parathyroid and thyroid surgery in the faculty of medicine at Regents University of Georgia (Augusta), USA; ¤ Visiting expert at IRCAD www.ircad.fr and course chairman for endocrine surgery; ¤ Director of the endocrine surgery courses at AITS www.aits.tw ; Honorary Dean of the AITC (Asian Institute Thyroid Cancer) in Show Chuan Hospital in Taiwan. ¤ Founding President of E.S.E.S. www.eses.cc (European society of endocrine surgeons); Inventor of thyroidectomy through endoscopic approach “Minimally Invasive Video-assisted Thyroidectomy (MIVAT). Honorary Member of : a) ESES, European Society of Endocrine Surgeons b) Turkish Society of Endocrine Surgery c) AFCE Association Francaise de Chirurgie Endocrinienne d) The Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology Currently Professor Emeritus of General Surgery of the University of Pisa. The author of numerous monographs and chapters. Author of the volume Techniques of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery (UTET Ed.) Author of the volume Thyroid Surgery: Preventing and Managing Complications”, Wiley-Blackwell Ed 2013 Chichester UK