Gruttadauria Salvatore

Salvatore Gruttadauria is the director of the Department for the Treatment and Study of Abdominal Diseases and Abdominal Transplantation at IRCCS ISMETT.

He is clinical professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgery of the University of Pittsburgh and full professor of General Surgery at the University of Catania.

Dr. Gruttadauria was the first surgeon in the world to successfully transplant into an adult recipient a liver procured from a COVID-19-positive donor. He was also the first Sicilian surgeon to perform a liver transplant in Sicily.

He is the author of 302 scientific publications, with a cumulative Impact Factor of 1,211.456 and a Scopus h-index of 38. To date, he has performed more than 7,000 major surgical procedures as primary surgeon, including 470 laparoscopic procedures.

Since 2002, he has been authorized by the Italian Ministry of Health to perform liver transplantation from both deceased and living donors, as well as kidney transplantation from both deceased and living donors.

As part of this activity, he has performed more than  900  abdominal organ transplants.