Dr. Fausto Catena is the Chief of Department of Emergency and General Surgery at Parma University Hospital, Italy. He has completed his degree in Medicine and Surgery (MD) from University of Bologna, Italy. He received Ph.D. in Physiology and Physiopathology from Bologna University. He was a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons UK. In 2013 he had the Italian national certification as a full professor of general surgery. He has so many memberships in national and International associations like 'Member American Association for the Advancement of Science'. And also from 2009, he is Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. He has written more than 600 articles in national and international journals. Many of his articles are indexed in PubMed Central.

Dr. Fausto Catena’s research interests include Emergency surgery (acute cholecystitis, adhesions, intrabdominal infections), renal transplantation (graft preservation), oncologic surgery (GIST and carcinomatosis- HIPEC), colorectal surgery (elective and emergency colorectal cancer, diverticular disease) and abdominal wall surgery (biological prostheses).