Alessandro Zerbi is currently the Director of the Pancreatic Surgery Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano (Milan, Italy), where he also leads the Pancreatic Surgery and Engineering Lab, and he is full professor of General Surgery at Humanitas University.

Born in Arona (Novara) on September 23, 1959, he graduated from the State University of Milan in 1984 and completed his residency in General Surgery in 1989. Between 1987 and 2003, he served as a general surgeon in the Surgical Department of San Raffaele Hospital, Milan under Professor Di Carlo. He expanded his expertise in pancreatic surgery through training stints at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (1988, Prof. Warshaw) and at Ulm Hospital in Germany (1990 and 1995, Prof. Beger).

From 2004 to 2009, he led the Pancreatic Surgery Unit at San Raffaele. Since 2010, he has been head of Pancreatic Surgery at the Humanitas Cancer Center, where his department now performs around 250 pancreatic and duodenal surgeries per year, treating over 1,100 patients annually. Since April 2016, he’s been an Associate Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University, obtaining national qualification to Full Professor in September 2018.

He served as President of the Italian Association of Pancreatology (AISP) from 2015 to 2017 and continues to be active in multiple scientific and ethics committees—including the Scientific Committee of the Italian Chapter of E‑AHPBA and the Humanitas Ethics Committee since 2016. He coordinated the Italian guidelines on acute pancreatitis in 2010 and 2015, contributed to chronic pancreatitis guidelines (2010), and helped develop Italian (2014) and European (2018) guidelines on cystic pancreatic tumors. He also leads the national Screening Program for Familial Pancreatic Cancer and heads the Italian Group for Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery (IGoMIPS).