MARCO LICCARDO is an orthopaedic surgeon and is Head of Department of Emergency and Surgery at Italian Army Medical Center  “Celio” in Rome .

From August 1990 he has been working in the Orthopaedic Department of Army Medical Center in Rome where in 1998 became head of Traumatology ward. In 2010 he was appointed Chief of the Orthopaedic Department. From 22.06.2015 to 31.01.2016 he was the Director of  Army Medical and Veterinary Research Center and from 01.02.2016 to date he is the Head of Emergency and Surgery Department.

He was, as honorary observer, at the Addenbroke Hospital and at the Hip and Knee Unit of the ”Bupa Lea Hospital” in Cambridge between 1997 and 1998.

He attended two management courses  at the “SDA Bocconi University” (2005/2007) and the “AO advanced course” in Davos (CH) in 2008.

He is a medical officer of the Italian army and from 1st January 2014 he is Brigadier General.

As medical officer he was involved in several military operations in Italy and abroad as in : Somaliland in 1993,  Kosovo in 2000 and 2001 and in  IRAQ 2005.

He is also currently involved in educational activities in the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Medicine and Surgery Faculty, as contract professor in several residency programs in Orthopaedic and Traumatology as well as in the  nursing science school.

His main focus is orthopaedic surgery and traumatology surgery especially of the lower limb.

He is interested in regenerative medicine and surgery. He performed the first operation using MSCs in the Italian army (July 2013) and continued with interest in using new technologies as PRP in bone, tendon and cartilage disease.

In June 2017 was appointed  “ honorary member” of the ISRMS (International Society Regenerative Medicine Surgery)