Fabio Santanelli di Pompeo Dillasi

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT FABIO SANTANELLI DI POMPEO DILLASI

Professor Fabio Santanelli di Pompeo is considered one of the major world-experts on breast reconstruction with autologous tissues and breast implants technology. He has specifically contributed to the development and affirmation of DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator) flap procedure, being the first to perform a DIEP flap in Sweden and in Italy back on 1998 and then persisting on a more regular basis with the establishment of the Breast Unit at Sant’Andrea Hospital, having personally performed more than 760 DIEP flap and 2,200 breast reconstruction till nowadays. The technique of using abdominal tissues from the patient itself to reconstruct the breast, has been described first in Sweden – where he started – and later improved in United States and Europe, with Santanelli’s contribute. In the last years he dedicated himself to the understanding and treatment of the most frightening breast implant complication, the BIA-ALCL. He served, as expert member, the Working Group of the Scientific Committee of Health Environment and Emerging Risk (SCHEER) from the European Commission on Health (SANTE-2), and also the AAPS Consensus Panel on Implant Safety and BIA-ALCL. He was EURAPS Secretary General for 7 years term and now is EURAPS President and Chairman of the of the EURAPS Scientific Committee on Device Safety and Development. Professional effort of Professor Fabio Santanelli di Pompeo has produced not only clinical but also scientific results with more than 188 original publications on international and national reviews and 37 chapters on international and national books.