Mauro Gacci

Mauro Gacci is Professor at the University of Florence. He works at the Unit of robotic surgery, minimally invasive surgery and kidney transplantation at the University Hospital Careggi, Florence, Italy since 2004. In this context, he has performed over 5000 surgeries such as first operator.

He is the chair of consensus and education of the Societè Internationale d’Urologie (SIU) Academy. He is a member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines working group on non-neurogenic male LUTS, including benign prostatic obstruction. He has authored the International Consultation of Urologic Disease (ICUD) Guideline on Male Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction. He is an active member of many international and national scientific societies, including EAU, SIU, SIUD.

Professor Mauro Gacci’s research interests include: preclinical, medical and surgical studies on LUTS due to BPH, prostate cancer and radical prostatectomy, robotic surgery, quality of life after oncologic surgery, comprising post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction and incontinence.

He has authored more than 600 indexed publications, including text-books of urologic surgery and international guidelines, with an H-Index of 55 and more than 11,000 citations. He is a reviewer for several urologic and non-urologic journals including European Urology, Journal of Urology, Urology, The Prostate, Prostate cancer and prostatic disease, British Journal of urology, World Journal of Urology, Urologia Internationalis, Journal of sexual medicine, Asian Journal of andrology.