FACULTY

Sartelli M.

He is senior consultant surgeon at Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Area Vasta 3, ZT n°9 (Italy) – Coordinator of Scientific Activities – Member of the Hospital Infection Control Committee - and Pandemic Committee. He has performed more than 3,500 operations of general and emergency surgery. His scientific activity is documented by publications in international scientific journals. He is author/co-author of eight manuals of emergency surgery. In the last years he has devoted his updating to the study of surgical infections and sepsis. He coordinated WSES Guidelines for Management of Intra-abdominal Infections, WSES Guidelines for Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and WSES Guidelines for Management of Clostridium difficile Infection in Surgical Patients. He designed and coordinated four multicenter prospective studies (CIAOW Study, CIAO Study, WISS Study and PIPAS Study) involving medical institutions worldwide defining epidemiological and management profiles of intra-abdominal infections worldwide. In 2016 he designed AGORA Project. A global Alliance for Rational and appropriate use of antibiotics in managing intra-abdominal infections with the participation of clinicians from 79 countries worldwide. He is deputy editor of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery (WJES) and member of the Board of Directors of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES). He is member of the steering committee of the European Sepsis Alliance (ESA) and of the council of the Surgical Infection Society Europe (SIS-E). He is founder and acting director of the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery.