Dr. Andrea Formiga, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery, Obesity Surgery - Milan, Italy

Training and career:

• 1996-1997: Specializing doctor at the General Surgery Unit – Medical Director Prof. G.C. Roviaro. San Giuseppe Hospital – Milan.
•  1998-1999.:Specializing doctor at the General Surgery Unit. Medical Director Prof. G. Fava Caduti Bollatesi Hospital.
• 1999-2009: General Surgery Assistant at the General Surgery Unit. Medical Director Prof. Carlo Rebuffat, San Marco Polyclinic C.so Europa, Bergamo.
• 2009-2013: Surgeon Aid at the Istituto Auxologico - Milan. General Surgery Unit.
• Head of the Digestive Endoscopy Service at the San Carlo Nursing Home, Milan, performing approximately 1,200 examinations/year.  
• Present: Head of the General Surgery Unit and Digestive Endoscopy Service at the Capitanio Nursing Home in Via Mercalli, Istituto Auxologico, Milan.

 
Work and case studies:

• Extensive operating cases certified with middle and advanced laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgical operations for benign and oncological diseases.
• Endoscopic/surgical treatment of obesity and diabetes (BioEnterics Intragastric Balloon).
• Endobag, Endobarrier, Endostitch, Obalon balloon), gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy.
• Digestive endoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGDS), diagnostic and operative colonoscopy, broncoscopies.