Role
Director of the General Surgery Unit 3 at the University Hospital of Padua and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Padua; founder and head of PELVITA, the Multidisciplinary Group for Advanced Pelvic Surgery.
Director of the Master's Degree in Robotic Surgery and Intelligent Systems (RoSI).
Director of the Fellowship in Oncologic Surgery of the Italian Society of Oncologic Surgery (SICO)
Bio
Gaya Spolverato is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgical, Oncological, and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG) at the University of Padua and Director of the General Surgery Unit 3 at the University Hospital of Padua. A surgical oncologist, she specializes in gastrointestinal tumors and advanced pelvic oncology surgery, including multivisceral procedures and pelvic exenterations, performed using open and robotic approaches. She is the founder and director of PELVITA, the multidisciplinary group dedicated to advanced pelvic surgery, and the director of the regional PDTA for colorectal cancer.
In addition to her clinical work, she develops and coordinates research projects on artificial intelligence applied to oncological surgery, with a particular focus on rectal cancer, predictive models, and the integration of intelligent systems into surgical practice and training. She is the Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 project on the use of AI to predict response to neoadjuvant treatments in rectal cancer and the creator and director of the RoSI Master's Program in Robotic Surgery and Intelligent Systems.
She also trained at Johns Hopkins University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center . She has authored over 300 scientific publications with an h-index of 58. She is an editorial board member of Artificial Intelligence Surgery and BMC Gastroenterology , and has received prestigious awards from the IHPBA , SITO, and the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery . She co-founded Women in Surgery Italy and is the Rector's Delegate for Equal Opportunity Policies at the University of Padua.