Luca Aldrighetti was the Head of the Hepatobiliary Surgery Division at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and Full Professor at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele. His research and assistance activities are mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of hepatobiliary neoplastic diseases, treatment of portal hypertension and liver failure, and monitoring and treatment of the critical surgical patients, with particular attention to surgery of perihilar cholangiocarcinomas and primary and metastatic liver neoplasms. He was author of 522 scientific publications in the most prestigious national and international journals, with a large number of citations. His H index was 66. 

Elio Jovine is Head of the Department of Surgery at Maggiore Hospital in Bologna and Professor of Surgery at Alma-Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. He has performed, in his career, more than 9,000 major surgical procedures as first operator. Among these cases, he has performed as first operator more than 4,200 cases of HPS Surgery and more than 2,600 colorectal surgery procedures. More than 2,100 cases have been carried out laparoscopically. His research activity focuses on minimally invasive surgery of the liver and ALPPS approach. He is author of 241 scientific publications in the most prestigious national and international journals, with a large number of citations. His H index is 43. 

Francesca Ratti is staff surgeon of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Her clinical research activities are mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of hepatobiliary diseases, minimally invasive liver surgery, protocols for accelerated surgical management, programs for two-stage hepatectomies and liver regeneration.  She is author of 251 scientific publications in the most prestigious national and international journals, with a large number of citations. Her H index is 39. 

Matteo Serenari is staff surgeon at the Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplant Unit of Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. His research interests mainly include the study of liver failure. He attended during his medical studies the Chirugische Klinik in Heidelberg (Germany). He also completed a research fellowship at the Hospital Italiano (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on the use of hepatobiliary scintingraphy in ALPPS technique and started a clinical fellowship at the London Health Sciences Centre (Ontario, Canada). He is author of 132 scientific publications in the most prestigious national and international journals, with a large number of citations. His H index is 26.