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DrCristina Garusi

Career

From medical school in Verona to the Division of Plastic Surgery at the European Institute of Oncology, where she worked from 1997 to 2024 on microsurgical breast reconstruction, lymphatic surgery and lymphoedema.

European Institute of Oncology

Her entire hospital career was spent in the Division of Plastic Surgery at IEO, via Ripamonti 435, Milan.

  1. 1997–2001

    Staff surgeon, permanent position

  2. 2001–2002

    Senior staff surgeon

  3. 2002–2004

    Deputy director, grade A3

  4. 2004–2008

    Deputy director, part-time, grade A3

  5. 2008–2015

    Senior deputy director, grade A4

  6. 2015–2024

    Consultant, high specialisation in microsurgery

Education

  • 1990

    Degree in Medicine and Surgery

    University of Verona, 18 July 1990

    Licensed to practise as a physician and surgeon the same year.
  • 1995

    Specialisation in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

    University of Padua, 29 November 1995. Five-year programme

  • 1997

    EBOPRAS, European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

    Toulouse, 10 November 1997

  • 2000

    Specialisation in Microsurgery and Experimental Surgery

    University of Milan, 12 July 2000. Two-year programme

  • 2012

    Certificate in healthcare management

    Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, and Eupolis Lombardia, January–October 2012

    Qualifies as director of a complex hospital unit, registration no. 4771.

Abroad

Three fellowship periods in Scotland, in Glasgow and Ayrshire.

  • Mar–Sep 1992

    Canniesburn Hospital, Bearsden, Glasgow

    Supervisor: Mr Martyn Webster

    Fellowship
  • Apr 1993–Apr 1994

    Ballochmyle Hospital, Scotland

    Supervisor: Mr Martyn Webster

    Waiting list initiative: two operating theatres a week, 400 patients cleared
  • Apr–Jun 2005

    Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow

    Supervisor: Mrs Eva Weiler Mitthoff

    Microsurgery fellowship

Scientific societies

  • 2023–2025

    President of the Italian Society of Microsurgery (SIM)

    Previously board member, auditor and member of the society's DRG committee.

    “Ho centrato tutti gli obiettivi che mi ero prefissata, dalla comunicazione ai progetti umanitari e a un fondo ad hoc per ogni futura ambizione.”
    salutein.news, 16/11/2025. Read the interview (Italian)
  • 2005

    Pyrenean Workshop, member and past president

    Annual high-level brainstorming meetings among international plastic surgery experts.

  • EWAPS, European Workshop Advance Plastic Surgery, member

  • SICPRE, Italian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, member

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