Damiano Patrono (1978) is an attending surgeon at the General Surgery 2U – Liver Transplant Center, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino (Turin, Italy) with an interest in liver and pancreas transplantation, liver preservation and minimally invasive HPB surgery. He obtained his medical qualification in 2003 and completed the residency in General Surgery in 2009 at the University of Turin. He also trained in Nice (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Oxford (United Kingdom). In 2015 he obtained his PhD in technologies applied to surgical sciences at the University of Turin. As a technology enthusiast, he is a convinced promoter of machine perfusion and other dynamic preservation techniques in liver transplantation