Paolo Rotelli, President of Italy’s Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato (GSD), the Italian largest private hospital group has his sights set on the Middle East, and Dubai in particular.

Life is all about balance. At least, that’s what a whole host of self help books, websites and motivational tapes will tell you.

Sitting at the head of the table in a meeting room where one can hardly see the walls for all the framed journal contributions, news articles and letters of appreciation.

Robotic surgery has, says Dr Alberto Briganti, prompted a “dramatic change in our clinical practice”. For some treatments of diseases such as prostate cancer.

Bariatric surgery has evolved a great deal from its origins as a primarily cosmetic procedure. As health systems have attempted to come to grips with the obesity crisis.

Professor Luigi Naldini and the team at San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy are looking to build a new pillar of medical treatment.

In 2007 when the decision to integrate research, clinical work and medical education at San Raffaele was taken, Manuela Battaglia, deputy director and Head of Unit for Immune-mediated diseases at San Raffaele’s Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) explains that the DRI was primarily focussed on type 1 diabetes.