Angelo Luca, MD
Country Manager, UPMC Italy
Vice President, Fondazione Ri.MED
Director, IRCCS ISMETT–UPMC
Chief Executive Officer, UPMC Salvator Mundi International Hospital

Dr. Luca earned his M.D. degree and completed his specializations in Gastrointestinal Diseases and Radiology at the University of Palermo.

During his postgraduate training, he completed a four-year Fellowship in Hepatic Hemodynamics at the Hospital Clínic i Provincial of the University of Barcelona, followed by a two-year Clinical Research Fellowship in Interventional Radiology at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. He also obtained a license to practice radiology in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.

In 1999, Dr. Luca relocated from the United States to Palermo, where he began working at ISMETT as a UPMC employee. He held a series of progressively senior clinical leadership roles, including Director of Radiology, Director of the Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services, and Director of the Educational Unit, before being appointed Vice CEO of ISMETT in 2014.

He subsequently focused his career on executive leadership, and in March 2016 was appointed Director of ISMETT, after completing an Executive Master in Healthcare Management and Social Care Organization and a course in Healthcare and Social Care Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Dr. Luca further expanded his responsibilities by assuming the role of Vice President of Fondazione Ri.MED in 2018. In 2023, upon appointment by the UPMC Board, he was named Country Manager of UPMC Italy and Chief Executive Officer of UPMC Salvator Mundi International Hospital. An Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Luca has conducted extensive research in the fields of hepatology, interventional radiology, and transplantation. His scientific output includes more than 400 publications, over 200 of which are peer-reviewed articles (H-index 43), and more than 60 presentations at international scientific conferences.