Gaetano Ciancio

Gaetano Ciancio is an Italian American surgeon at the University of Miami who specializes in kidney transplant.

He is the chief medical and academic officer of the Miami Transplant Institute and the director of its Kidney & Kidney-Pancreas Programs.

[6] His results demonstrated that by performing a liver mobilization, urological oncologists could avoid a thoracic incision in many patients [7] Building on the techniques described for resecting large renal tumors, Ciancio adapted his liver mobilization technique to address retrohepatic or even suprahepatic inferior vena caval thrombus associated with renal tumors.

[3] Together with his long time collaborator Mark Soloway, they published a step-by-step guide toward resecting renal cell carcinoma with associated inferior vena cava thrombus.

[17] He was knighted in Italy by Sergio Mattarella and is a member of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic[18] He is an author or co-author of two books, 30 book chapters, and over 388 peer-reviewed articles published in medical journals for topics involving the field of solid organ transplantation and urologic oncology.