Sir alfred cuschieri biography of barack obama

Maltese-British academic and surgeon

Sir Alfred CuschieriFRSE FMedSci (born 30 September 1938) is a Maltese-British surgeon and academic.^[1] He is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the development and clinical implementation of minimal access surgery, also known as key-hole surgery.^[2] He has been Professor of Surgery at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, since 2003 as well as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Institute of Medical Science and Technology at the University of Dundee since 2008.^[3]

Sir Alfred Cuschieri, was born in Malta, his parents were Italian and Maltese (his father was from Florence).^[4]

Career

Cuschieri obtained his medical degree from the Royal University of Malta in 1961.

Soon after graduation he left Malta for the United Kingdom to undertake further research into his areas of surgical and technological interest at the University of Liverpool. At Liverpool, he rose t