PaolO RODI

Paolo is a trauma and general surgical resident currently working in Switzerland and EMDM alumnus, with an academic focus on Global and Humanitarian Surgery. Currently pursuiing a PhD at CRIMEDIM in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid and Global Health, his research focuses on access to Emergency, Critical, and Operative (ECO) care in fragile and conflict-affected settings, surgical health system barriers, global surgical policy analysis and legislative evaluation, outreach programs and long-term sustainable surgical interventions, disaster medicine systems and mass-casualty surgical preparedness.

Within CRIMEDIM, Paolo is also actively involved in the European Master in Disaster Medicine as thesis supervisor and as tutor for the Riceland module, as well as helping manage the yearly full scale exercise. Moreover, he is also involved in the MODEX exercises. 

Outside of CRIMEDIM, he is routinely involved in humanitarian missions in low-resource settings such as Nigeria, Nepal and Afghanistan, involving clinical, educational or scientific work. As a hobby, I am an avid mountain-goer and freeride skier, promoting educational and academic projects and education on high-altitude pathologies, and avalanche rescue.