Surgical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program
Dott. Pagano Duilio
Dr. Duilio Pagano is specialized in General Surgery and is Surgical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at IRCCS ISMETT.
He works at the Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation since 2009, where is has gained extensive experience in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, abdominal organ transplantation, including liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, and advanced minimally invasive surgery in complex patients, including transplant recipients and patients awaiting transplantation.
He graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Messina, completed his residency in General Surgery at the University of Padua with highest honors, and earned a PhD in Clinical and Biomolecular Hepato-Gastroenterology from the University of Messina.
At IRCCS ISMETT, Dr. Pagano has participated as primary surgeon, second surgeon, or surgical assistant in more than 2,400 procedures, with a particular focus on hepatopancreatobiliary surgery and living- and deceased-donor liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation.
Dr. Pagano is active member of several Italian and international scientific societies, including the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), Italian Society for Organ Transplantation (SITO), Italian Association of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery (AICEP), and Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF).
Since 2022, he is member of the Permanent Transplant 2025 Committee, contributing to the development of national strategic guidelines. He works closely with the Liver Transplant Coordination Center (CCTF) of the Italian National Transplant Center (CNT) on the review of organ allocation and eligibility criteria. He is also a member of the joint SITO-AICEP-CCTF Board and contributed to the national survey on the treatment of hepatobiliary tumors at transplant centers, published in Updates in Surgery in 2024.
In recognition of his research work, he received the Young Investigator Award at the ILTS, ELITA & LICAGE Joint International Congress in 2018. He is also involved in national and international collaborative research groups focused on best practices in surgery and transplantation.
Dr. Pagano is extensively involved in scientific research and peer review and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including BMC Surgery, International Journal of Surgery, Frontiers in Surgery, and Life.
