About
Language(s): English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian
Department: Surgery
Board Certification: Emergency Surgery, General Surgery, and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Dr. Roberto Bergamaschi is a world-renowned colorectal surgeon and an internationally recognized expert in laparoscopic surgery for colorectal diseases, with over 300 published works on the topic. He is one of just a handful of colorectal surgeons in the United States who has mastered intracorporeal laparoscopic colorectal surgery, which is minimally invasive surgery.
Dr. Bergamaschi is president of New York Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons, New York, NY, and editor of Colorectal Disease, Official Journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland.
Awards:
- PhD Dissertation on the treatment of colorectal cancer published in Eur J Surg 1995; 161 Suppl 575:1-22 on November 8, 1995 was added by Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, MD to the reference file used by the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam, Houston, TX
- The Leading Physicians of The World 2016 recognition as a Top Colorectal Surgeon.
- Editor, Colorectal Disease, official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
- Past President, New York Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
Please CLICK HERE for publications.
Please CLICK HERE for the International Research Fellowship
Professional Memberships:
American Surgical Association
American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
New York Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
National Cancer Institute
New York Surgical Society
Education
Medical School: University of Milan, Italy
Internship: Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic, San Francisco, CA
Residency: Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK
Fellowship: Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
Specialties
Specialties: Colon and Rectal Surgery
Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery
Special Clinical Interest:
- Disease of the colon, rectum and anus
- Redo colorectal surgery and robotic and laparoscopic colorectal surgery
- Colorectal disorders including colon, rectal and anal cancer
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Recto-vaginal fistula
- Perianal fistula
- Entero-cutaneous fistula
- Hemorrhoids
- Anal fissure
- Crohn’s disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Hereditary colon polyps
- Adult Hirschsprung's disease
- Constipation and incontinence