Dr. Emanuele Lo Menzo is a native Italian who received his medical degree from the University of Catania in Italy. He also completed a PhD program in Clinical Microbiology at the same university.
Dr. Lo Menzo completed his general surgical residency at Thomas Jefferson University and the The Lankenau Hospital, part of Jefferson Health System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed a clinical fellowship in advanced laparoscopy, endoscopy and bariatric surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida. He is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Department of Research at the Cleveland Clinic Florida.
Previous Academic appointments include Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and previously Assistant Professor of laparoendoscopic & bariatric surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His main clinical and research interests include laparoscopic and open hernias, abdominal wall reconstruction, as well as laparoscopic surgery for morbid obesity, esophageal reflux, esophageal motility and surgical endoscopy.
He is author of more than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 25 book chapters and over 200 abstracts.