AntonioGangemiMDDABS, FASMBS, FACS(He/Him)

General Surgery • Riverside, IL

Bariatric Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery

Associate Professor of Surgery

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Office
27 Riverside Road
Riverside, IL 60546
Phone+1 312-451-6984

Summary

Dr. Antonio Gangemi is a general surgeon based in Bologna (Italy) and Chicago, IL (USA).
Dr. Gangemi is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery (DABS) and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS).
Dr. Gangemi had affiliations over the past 18 years with multiple hospitals in the USA, including University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Saint Anthony Hospital and Thorek Memorial Hospital and OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Evergreen Park, IL and more recently in Italy with University of Bologna Hospital.
Dr. Gangemi attained surgical training at University of Padua (Italy) and at University of Illinois at Chicago, IL (USA) where he completed a residency in general surgery and obtained the certification in robotic, metabolic and bariatric surgery. Dr. Gangemi has been in practice for about 20 years and is an accomplished academic surgeon who is also well versed with the private practice world. His clinical interests include general, foregut, metabolic and bariatric surgery. He is an expert in and early adopter of robotic surgery. His academic interests span from surgical teaching and mentoring to surgical simulation, innovative surgical and interventional techniques and surgical ethics and economics.
His most recent biography has been published in 2021 and can be found at the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-gangemi/overlay/1635464327040/single-media-viewer/?profileId=ACoAAAJStgABZZiHn3h61X0m0W5UAb6V6UCBnkU

Education & Training

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public HealthCertification, Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers, 2017 - 2017
University of Illinois College of Medicine at ChicagoResidency, Surgery, 2007 - 2012
Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreCertification, Bioethics, 1998 - 1998
OtherClass of 1997

Certifications & Licensure

IL State Medical License 2009 - 2026
American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Teaching Award Chief Residents General Surgery Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018
America’s Top Surgeons Recognition Consumers’ Research Council of America, 2017
Career Development Award Warren Cole Society “Mechanisms of Type 2 Diabetes Remission Following Bariatric Surgery”, 2016
Poster of Distinction “Preliminary Results of our Simulation-Based Experience on the Management of ‘Blue Codes’ and Emergent Open Conversion in the Robotic Operating Room” 8th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of ACS-Accredited Education Institutes Chicago, IL, 2015
Golden Scalpel Teaching Award Nominee Medical Students, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013
Clinical Robotic Research Grant Intuitive Surgical Clinical Robotic Research Grant Committee, 2013
First Place Research Award, “Nutritional and Metabolic Management of Chyle Leaks”. Research Forum, Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, Conference Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010
Status of permanent citizen through the “National Interest Waiver” under the “Alien of Exceptional Ability” category United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), 2009
Research Award, “Islet Transplantation for Brittle Type 1 Diabetes: The UIC Protocol” Research Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008
Summa cum Laude University of Padua, Italy, 2005
Travel Award “AOP RANTES Prolongs Allogeneic Islet Transplant Survival in Vivo. Advances in Organ Transplantation”, 2005 Genzyme Fellows Conference – Boston, MA, 2005
Summa sine Laude University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1997
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Clinical Trials

Comparing the Outcomes of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy vs. Robotic Cholecystectomy Start of enrollment: 2016 Dec 01
Withdrawn

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

6 citations
A case report of choledocholithiasis 33 years after cholecystectomy
Xane Peters, Bhargava Gannavarapu, Antonio Gangemi
International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 2017-01-01
38 citations
Effects of short- and long-term neurostimulation (tDCS) on Alzheimer’s disease patients: two randomized studies
Antonio Gangemi, Barbara Colombo, Rosa Angela Fabio
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 2021-02-01
19 citations
Risk Factors for Readmission After Same-Day Discharge Sleeve Gastrectomy: a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program Database Anal...
Nicolas H Dreifuss, Julia Xie, Francisco Schlottmann, Antonio Cubisino, Carolina Baz
Obesity Surgery. 2022-04-01

Committees

Member, American Board of Surgery - General Surgery Certifying Examination Consultant Committee 2023 - Present
Member, American College of Surgeons - Curriculum Committee 2014 - Present