Gianluca Pellino has an M.D. degree. He is Ph.D. in Traslational Medicine. and serves as Associate Professor in General Surgery at the Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy . He has served as Colorectal Surgeon at the Unit of Colorectal Surgery of University Hospital "La Fe", Valencia, Spain, as 2017 European Coloproctology Fellow. Dr Pellino has studied medicine at the Medical University of Naples and graduated in 2008. He completed the Residency Programme in General Surgery in 2016. He completed the ESCP 6-month Fellowship 2016 at the Colorectal Surgery Unit of the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. He attended the St. Mark's Hospital, Harrow, London in 2017 with an Erasmus+ Traineeship placement. Since 2019, he is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons on England (FRCS). He is a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS) in coloproctology upon passing the exam of the European Board of Surgical Qualification (EBSQ-c) in 2018. In 2018 he received the status of International Fellow of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons (FASCRS), and in 2020 the status of Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He is former Regional Representative (Campania) of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR) and former Website Committee Member of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP). He serves as member of the Guidelines Committee and Communication Committee of the ESCP, member of SICCR Research Committee. He has been co-chair of EuroSurg (2017-19), National co-Lead (Italy) for GlobalSurg 3 Study, and is local PI of several multicentric studies. He is vice-chair of ItSurg Collaborative. Dr Pellino is also Chairman of Young ESCP and a Member of the Young Committee (Y-ECCO) of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO), he is Overseas Member of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI), Member of the Asociación Española de Coloproctología (AECP), Member of the Asociación Española de Cirujanos (AEC), Member of the Grupo Español de Trabajo en Enfermedad de Crohn y Colitis ulcerosa (GETECCU), Member of the Italian Group for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IG-IBD), and Italian Society of Surgery (SIC). He has written more than 100 journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals and coauthored book chapters. His special interests are in inflammatory bowel diseases, colorectal cancer, and proctology, with particular emphasis on surgical treatment of these diseases and surgical training. He is the Reviewer of several journals, including the British Journal of Surgery, Colorectal Disease, BMJ, Techniques in Coloproctology, Updates in Surgery, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, World Journal of Gastroenterology, Surgical Innovation, and Digestive Surgery. He also serves as Social Media Editor of Techniques in Coloproctology,and he is in the Editorial Board of BJS Open, World Journal of Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology Research & Practice and serves as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Surgery, BMC Surgery and Medicine. He has received the Editor Assistant Bursary 2019 of British Journal of Surgery