26 Facts About Ignazio Marino

Ignazio Marino founded the ISMETT organ transplant center in Palermo, Sicily; Marino was the CEO and the Director of ISMETT from 1997 until 2002.

Ignazio Marino was elected Mayor of Rome in June 2013.

Ignazio Marino took the case to prosecutors, starting the 2014 Rome corruption scandal.

On 12 October 2015, Ignazio Marino resigned from the Office of Mayor to prove his innocence.

Currently, Ignazio Marino is Professor of Surgery at the Thomas Jefferson University, School of Medicine, and holds the role of Executive Vice President for both Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health.

Ignazio Marino was born in Genoa to a Sicilian father and a Swiss mother and is the oldest of three children.

Ignazio Marino graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome.

In Pittsburgh, Dr Ignazio Marino completed an American Society of Transplant Surgeons approved multi-organ transplant fellowship under the direct leadership of Dr Starzl and was hired by him as an attending physician and a Faculty member in 1991.

In 1992, Ignazio Marino was appointed associate director of the National Liver Transplant Center of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs of Pittsburgh, then the only Liver transplantation department of the Government of the United States.

Ignazio Marino was a member of the surgical team which in June 1992 and January 1993 performed two baboon-to-human liver xenotransplants in a clinical trial coordinated by Starzl.

In 1997 Ignazio Marino founded the ISMETT organ transplant center in Palermo, Sicily.

Ignazio Marino was the CEO and the Director of ISMETT from 1997 until 2002, the first liver transplantion center in Sicily, founded through a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Ministry of Health of the Government of Italy Ministry of Health of the Category:Government of Italy.

In 2002, Ignazio Marino moved to Philadelphia at the Thomas Jefferson University.

Ignazio Marino is the recipients of several international medical awards, including the 2010 Award for contributions to the fight against AIDS; Honorary Doctor of Science degree at the Thomas Jefferson University; the Longmire Professorship of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Longmire Surgical Society Society.

Ignazio Marino delivered more than 700 international scientific lectures and is the author of over 500 peer-review articles and has authored several scientific books.

Ignazio Marino is a member of the editorial board of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Clinical Transplantation, and 9 other international scientific journals.

Ignazio Marino is Professor of Surgery at the Thomas Jefferson University, School of Medicine, and, from 2020, Executive Vice President of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia.

In 2020, Ignazio Marino was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia International Medicine.

On June 6,2006, Ignazio Marino was elected Chair of the Health Committee of the Senate of the Republic.

Ignazio Marino ran the 2013 election for Mayor of Rome with the support of a centre-left alliance.

On 18 October 2014, Ignazio Marino registered the marriages of 16 same-sex couples who requested it to the Municipality, which followed similar acts by other Italian mayors.

Ignazio Marino was replaced by Francesco Paolo Tronca, a government-appointed commissioner.

Since 2013, Ignazio Marino has fostered the interest of several philanthropists in carrying out numerous archaeological restoration operations on Rome's artistic heritage on sites considered UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

In 2016, Ignazio Marino returned to the USA where he is Professor of Surgery at the Thomas Jefferson University, School of Medicine, and Executive Vice President of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia.

Ignazio Marino is a member of the Committee on Budgets, of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, of the Delegation for relations with the United States, of the Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, member of the Committee in Public Health, and Substitute for the Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly.

For more times, Ignazio Marino was invited by and gave some lectures at the Grand Orient of Italy.