Plastic surgeon and microsurgeon, Milan
CristinaGarusi
Twenty-seven years of microsurgical breast reconstruction at the European Institute of Oncology. President of the Italian Society of Microsurgery from 2023 to 2025.
SIM president, 2023–2025
“Ho centrato tutti gli obiettivi che mi ero prefissata, dalla comunicazione ai progetti umanitari e a un fondo ad hoc per ogni futura ambizione.”“I achieved every goal I had set, from communication to humanitarian projects and a dedicated fund for future ambitions.” Interview in salutein.news, November 2025
44 scientific papers, 1996–2016
Breast reconstruction, nipple-sparing mastectomy, fat grafting, microsurgery and head and neck surgery, in journals including Annals of Oncology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and The Breast.
All publications
The book
A Seno Nudo
Fourteen women tell the story of their breast reconstruction, with photographs by Isabella Balena and a clinical note for each story. Tecniche Nuove, 2012, in Italian. Royalties go to the IEO Foundation.
About the bookIn and beyond the operating theatre
Clinical work
Breast reconstruction with autologous flaps such as DIEP, head and neck, limb and genitourinary reconstruction, lymphatic microsurgery for lymphoedema.
Teaching
Faculty on the microsurgery masters at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2010. Courses in Paris, Pavia and Naples, and theses supervised in Italy and abroad.
Humanitarian work
Three missions to North Kinangop Hospital in Kenya with Help for Life: microsurgical reconstruction in the highlands, without advanced technology.