Pietro Giorgio Calò has been a Full Professor of General Surgery at the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Cagliari since 2017. A specialist in oncological surgery, he began his academic career as a researcher in 1992 and was appointed Associate Professor in 2006. He currently teaches General Surgery II in the Medicine and Surgery degree program and is involved in several general surgery courses across various degree programs and specialization schools within the university. He is also a member of the faculty board of the PhD program in Neuroscience and serves as Director of the General Surgery Unit at AOU Cagliari.
Professor Calò was a member of the Academic Senate from 2017 to 2024 and served as Director of the Department of Surgical Sciences from 2018 to 2024. He has held various academic roles, including Vice-Coordinator of the Medicine and Surgery degree program, member of the CAV (Committee for Self-Evaluation), the Review Committee, and the Teaching Committee. He is currently Director of the School of Specialization in General Surgery.
He is the former President of the Italian Unitary Society of Endocrine Surgery, a position he held from 2021 to 2023, and served as a board member of the Italian Society of Surgery from 2020 to 2022. He is currently a board member of the College of Full Professors of Surgery.
Finally, he is an editor for several journals, including BMC Surgery, BMC Endocrine Disorders, Gland Surgery, Frontiers in Endocrinology, Frontiers in Oncology, and Cancers. He is also the author of over 160 scientific articles published in international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.