AISNA
Association of Italian Surgeons in North America
AISNA
Association of Italian Surgeons in North America
- Junior Researchers Committee
Motivati da una comune passione per la ricerca e l’innovazione in campo chirurgico, i membri del Junior Researchers Committee di AISNA sono giovani italiani che stanno svolgendo, o hanno recentemente completato, un periodo di attività di ricerca negli Stati Uniti.
Alessandro Martinino, MD
President, Junior Researchers Committee, AISNA
Research Scholar, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
I am a first-generation medical graduate born and raised in Rome, Italy. I received my MD degree from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in 2022. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate in Transplant Surgery at Duke University. My fields of interest are abdominal organ transplant and metabolic surgery, with a focus on minimally invasive and robotic approach. I am a sports enthusiast.
Gianmarco Cancelli, MD
Research Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
I was born and raised in Trani and I graduated in Medicine from University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy. At the end of 2020 I moved to the United States where I am currently working as a Research Fellow in Cardiac Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
Giovanni Jr Soletti, MD
Research Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Born and raised in Ascoli Piceno, a delightful city in the southern end of Marche, Italy.
My medical school alma mater is the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
My main field of interest is Cardiac Surgery.
Arnaldo Dimagli, MD
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
I was born and raised in a small town in the sunny Puglia. I received my MD from the University of Eastern Piedmont. After my graduation, I moved to the UK to pursue a fellowship in Cardiac Surgery. I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. My research is focused on clinical outcomes after cardiac surgery, and biostatistics applied to medical research.
Samuele Cannas, MD MS MM
Surgical Research Associate, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
I was born and raised in a small village near Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. I received my MD degree from the University of Pisa in 2021, where I simultaneously pursued the degrees in Biotechnologies, Engineering and Molecular Biotechnologies. I am currently a Surgical Research Associate in HPB Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. My main field of interest is minimally invasive and robotic HPB surgery, with a focus on AI systems. I am also a pianist.
Marco Ventin, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Born and raised under the influence of Italian, Austrian and Slovenian cultures in Gorizia, Italy. I graduated in Medicine at the University of Udine in 2020, where I started doing research in liver and kidney transplantation. I am currently active as Postdoctoral Fellow in Surgical Oncology at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital. My fields of interest are clinical and translational research in HPB surgery, pancreatic cancer and cancer immunology. As for the future, I would like to join the general surgery residency program.
Martina Nebbia, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
I am a first-generation medical graduate born and raised in Alessandria, a lovely city near Turin, Italy. After graduating from University of Pavia School of Medicine (Italy) I started the residency in General Surgery at Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS (Milan, Italy). During research time, as part of my residency program, I joined the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2021 and I’m currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. My main field of interest is pancreatic and hepato-biliary surgery and the focus of my research is the development and application of new immunotherapeutic strategies against hepato-biliary-pancreatic malignancies.
Andrea Amabile, MD
Past President, Junior Researchers Committee, AISNA
Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident, Yale School of Medicine
Sono nato e cresciuto in Italia, sulla sponda Piemontese del Lago Maggiore. Dopo essermi laureato in Medicina e Chirurgia (2020) ed aver conseguito un Master in Biostatistica (2021) in Italia, mi sono trasferito alla Yale University per guidare il Cardiac Surgery Clinical Outcomes Research Group come postdoctoral associate (2021-2022) e research faculty (2022-2023). Da giugno 2023 sono resident nel percorso integrato di chirurgia cardio-toracica presso la Yale University.
