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Topic: Recent Advances
in Breast Cancer-related
Lymphedema
Mario F. Scaglioni studied medicine at the University
of Pavia, Italy. After completing his doctorate in
Pavia, he became a specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive
and Aesthetic Surgery at the University Politecnica
delle Marche, Italy. Moreover, he subspecialized in
Reconstructive Microsurgery. He obtained two years
(2011-2012) fellowship in Breast Reconstruction and
Head & Neck reconstruction respectively, under the
supervision of Prof. Eyal Gur at the Sourasky Medical
Prof. Dr. med. Mario F. Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Afterwards (2013), he spent
1 year at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Texas,
Scaglioni as microsurgery research fellow. Under the mentoring
Department of Plastic of Prof. Suami, he studied the anatomy of the lymphatic
Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, system and its application in lymphedema surgery. Then
Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, (2014), he moved for one more year to Chang Gang
Lucerne, Switzerland. Memorial Hospital, Taiwan as a microsurgery fellow
Department of Health Sciences and under the mentoring of Prof. Fu-Chan Wei and Prof.
Medicine, University of Lucerne, Yur-Ren Kuo, worldwide recognized microsurgeons.
Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2015, he was appointed as consultant in Plastic and
Reconstructive surgery at University Hospital Zurich
(USZ). In 2017 he received his Venia Legendi (PD) at the
University of Zurich. In 2018 he has been appointed as
senior consultant at the Clinic of Hand and Plastic Surgery
at the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital (LUKS). In December
2021 he has been appointed Titular Professor at Faculty
of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University
of Lucerne. Since January 2022 he has promoted as
Co-Chief of the Clinic of Hand and Plastic Surgery in
LUKS. He published more than 90 scientific papers
in international peer-review Journals and contributed
to several book chapters; he is an international well
recognized reconstructive microsurgeon.
