Giovanni Maria Romano is Chief  Department of Abdominal Oncology and Consultant surgeon at the National Cancer Institute, Naples, Italy. He's Professor of surgery at the post-graduate School of surgery of the University Federico II and at the SUN University of Naples, Italy. Tutor in Surgical Training at the Moscati Teaching hospital in Avellino, Italy. He's also coordinator of local training workshops for the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery all over Italy and Professor of surgery at the University of Rome in the current Master of 2th level in colorectal surgery. He is currently Past President of the European Society of Colon Proctology (ESCP),Past President of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery and an active member of several national and international Scientific Societies. He has been recently nominated Visiting Professor at the University of Lodz in Polland. Author of more than 300 scientific publications (90 papers in international peer reviewed journals). Referee for Techniques in Coloproctology and Colorectal Disease. Member of the Editorial Board of Techniques in Coloproctology and Rivista Italiana di Coloproctologia. From 2013 he is member of the Editorial Board of Colorectal Disease. Prof. Romano's main scientific interests have included kidney and liver transplantation, neoplastic, inflammatory and functional diseases of the colon rectum and anus.