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Topic: Women in Surgery Meets AIS Journal

Dr. Isabella Frigerio

Dr. Isabella Frigerio, Consultant Surgeon in Pancreatic
Surgical Unit, Verona, Italy. Department of Hepato-

Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pederzoli Hospital, Peschiera
del Garda, Verona, Italy.

Dr. Isabella Frigerio focus on pancreatic surgery, with
more than 500 pancreatic resections performed during

her career, other than 1500 general surgery operations.
Work experience includes several humanitarian missions
in the Balcanic area, Sierra Leone, and Burundi. She is

currently involved in clinical research and oncological
trials. Dr. Frigerio completed a Ph.D. in Hepatobiliary and
Pancreatic diseases in 2013 at the University of Verona,
reporting the largest experience on RFA in advanced
pancreatic carcinoma. Since 2012 she has been an active

member of the European Digestive Surgery (EDS)
Society, which focuses its surgical education programs
in Eastern Europe and represents the same Society at

the UEG meeting of members (2019-2022). In 2015 Dr.
Frigerio co-founded the first Italian Association of women
surgeons (WIS Italia) and, in 2020, the Association of
Women Leaders in Healthcare (LEADS). Since 2017 she
has led the Fellowship Program in Pancreatic Surgery at

the Pederzoli Hospital and exported this experience to a
larger program of Surgical Oncology led by the Italian
Association of Surgical Oncology. In 2021 she was

nominated Secretary General Elect of E-AHPBA and
started her role in the International Relations Committee
of the American College of Surgeons (Scholarship and
Education). Since 2020 Dr. Frigerio is the Associated
Editor of AIS journal, the official journal of WIS Italia, the

first journal totally focused on AI surgery and Digestive
Surgery.