Ms Cinzia Sammartino

Professional statement

Ms Cinzia Sammartino is a highly skilled consultant general surgeon with practice in London and Oxford who specialises in lumps and bumps, cysts, proctology, abdominal wall repair surgery and renal transplantations. Alongside her NHS work at Royal London Hospital, where she practises as a general and transplant surgeon, Ms Sammartino currently provides outpatient, minimally invasive treatments for haemorrhoids and this includes eXroid electrotherapy treatment for private patients.

Ms Sammartino qualified from Università degli Study di Milano in 1999. After obtaining her CCT in General Surgery from the University of Pavia, Ms Sammartino went on to accomplish higher surgical training in Italy, France and the UK before becoming a consultant in 2009. Ms Sammartino joined Royal London Hospital in 2009 as a consultant general and transplant surgeon with specialist interest in laparoscopic benign surgery and proctology, and since then, has been named clinical lead of the renal transplant unit.

Further to her quality surgical practice, Ms Sammartino is a leading figure in clinical research and medical education. She has authored over 40 publications and reports in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Transplantation, and as a dedicated mentor, she also regularly collaborates in local and regional training programmes for junior doctors.