Ignazio Marino

Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino (born 10 March 1955) is an Italian transplant surgeon who was Mayor of Rome from 2013 to 2015. He trained with Thomas Starzl, a pioneer of human liver transplantation, and as a member of Starzl team at the University of Pittsburgh he carried out two baboon-to-human liver transplants in 1992 and 1993. He founded the ISMETT organ transplant centre in Palermo, which he directed from 1997 to 2002, and in 2001 he performed the first organ transplant in Italy for a person with HIV. He has held chairs of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where he is now professor of surgery and an executive vice president, and he sat in the Italian Senate from 2006.