Associate Editor

Dr Richard Naspro is a fully certified laparoscopic-robotic urological surgeon at Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, where he also leads the Bladder and Adrenal unit and coordinates the outpatient clinic. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan (Italy) in 2001, he undertook specialist training in Urology at San Raffaele Vita-Salute University (2006) and completed a fellowship in laparoscopic and robotic surgery at the Clinique Saint Augustin, Bordeaux (France). His post graduate training included a University Diploma in Laparoscopic surgery of the gastro-intestinal tract at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (ULP), (France) in 2003 and the Surgical leadership Program-SLP Class 2019 at Harvard Medical School (HMS), USA. Dr Naspro established a Urological surgical programme at Touloum Hospital in the extreme North Region of Cameroon in 2013. He currently lectures medical students of the University of Milano-Bicocca School of Medicine and Surgery (SMS) and is a tutor and proctor for laparoscopic surgery. He is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Urology and is a reviewer for many indexed international medical journals. Dr Naspro's main areas of expertise are: the management and investigation of bladder and kidney cancer, urological oncology (he is regional coordinator of the Italian Society of Uro-Oncology, the management of high risk cardiovascular patients candidates for urological surgery, quality in surgical research (IDEAL collaboration) He is author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications.

partial nephrectomy; laparoscopy; robotic surgery; minimally invasive treatment of BPH