Activity
Surgical activity
Prof Nicola Mondaini’s wealth of surgical experience, underpinned by his publications on various topics in urology and surgical andrology, has been acquired in the Urology Clinics of the University of Florence under the mentorship of Prof Michelangelo Rizzo since 1997. Prof Nicola Mondaini has performed and participated in operations at an international level in the forefront of urology. In 2000 he studied surgical endoscopic procedures of the prostate at the urology department of King's College Hospital in London under the mentorship of Prof Gordon Muir. In 2004 he had visiting internships in the most important European centres of andrological surgery. At San Giuseppe Hospital in Milan (directed by Prof E. Austoni) and Children University Hospital in Belgrade (directed by Prof S. Perovich) he studied the correction of congenital and acquired penile curvatures with procedures of plication of the tunica albuginea and excision of the fibrotic plaque and grafting by saphenous vein patch. At Fundacio Puigvert in Barcelona (directed by Prof E. Ruiz-Castane) and Middlesex Hospital in London (directed by Prof D. Ralph) he studied the prosthetic surgery of the penis. At the hospital of Trieste (directed by Prof E. Belgrano) and AKH in Hamburg (directed by Prof M. Fisch) he studied testicular surgery. Since 2005 he is a medical officer at Santa Maria Annunziata hospital in Florence where he further advanced, under the mentorship of Prof Riccardo Bartoletti, his knowledge about vesical and kidney surgery, becoming a supervisor of the department of andrological surgery.