Assistant Professor (Researcher type B) at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Division, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Salvatore Giovanni Vitale was born in Catania (Italy) on 30th August 1984. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2009 at the University of Catania cum laude, specialized in gynaecology and obstetrics with honours in 2015 at the same University and received his PhD in Medical and Surgical Biotechnologies at the University of Messina in 2018. Advisor and reviewer of prestigious national and international research institutes, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian School of Minimally-Invasive Gynaecological Surgery (S.I.C.M.I.G.).

His main clinical and research interests are intracavitary uterine pathologies, hysteroscopy and minimally invasive surgery, female infertility and gynecological endocrinology. He recently patented an innovative and easy-to-use hysteroscopic grasper compatible with all modern hysteroscopes named “biopsy snake grasper sec. VITALE”, which allows to grasp and cut simultaneously.

Principal investigator and co-investigator in several national and international research projects, many of them funded by prestigious research institutes and universities after rigorous peer review, he is the author of more than 300 papers published in PubMed-indexed international peer-reviewed journals and of several monographs and chapters of international treaties.

For the high level of his scientific activity, he has been identified in the first position at the Italian level and 45th position worldwide for the section "Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine" in the "Stanford University Ranking" published by the prestigious international scientific journal PLOS Biology.

He is currently an editor of high-impact journals, including Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, International Journal of Women's Health, Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, Journal of Ovarian Research, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and many others.