Roberto Bergamaschi (professor)
Dr. Roberto Bergamaschi is a colorectal surgery specialist, Chief of Colorectal Surgery Department at Westchester Medical Center, previously Professor of Division of Colorectal Surgery at State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY Biography. Dr. Roberto Bergamaschi was born in Sicily and grew up in Milan, Italy, where he obtained his MD degree. He completed his surgery residency at Strasbourg University in France and at Middlesex Hospital in London, where he also obtained his FRCS ad eundem. He continued his training in colorectal surgery in Trondheim, Norway under professor Helge Myrvold. Bergamaschi completed his PhD in  colorectal cancer at Bergen University in Norway under the guidance of professor Odd Søreide. He was there appointed as associate professor, then elevated to full professor and student clerkship director in 1997. Career. In 2001, Bergamaschi obtained his FASCRS in San Diego and moved to the United States in 2003 to become program director of the MIS fellowship and MIS Center director at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. as well as professor of surgery at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After obtaining his FACS in New Orleans in 2004, Bergamaschi accepted in 2005 the Indru Khubchandani Endowed Chair in  Colorectal surgery at Penn State University and was appointed in 2006 as associate editor of "Diseases of the Colon & Rectum", official journal of the ASCRS. In 2008, Bergamaschi accepted a position as tenured professor and chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery at State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY. Dr. Bergamaschi served as Chairman of the Education and Training Committee for the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) from 2012 through 2015.