Professional experience

06/02/2024- current

Consult Urologist at Urology Department at Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela,
Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid – Spain

01/02/2023- 05/02/2024

Robotic fellowship at Urology Department at Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela,
Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid – Spain

28/12/2017-28/12/2022

School of Specialization in Urology at the University of Florence at Azienda Ospedaliero Unversitaria Careggi

02/11/2020- 31/12/2020

Training network of the School of Specialization in Urology at Azienda USL Toscana Centro at Ospedale Santa Maria Annunziata – U.O. Urologia.
Participation in departmental, outpatient and operating room activities.

08/01/2020- 28/02/2020

Training network of the School of Specialization in Urology at Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria Meyer – Struttura di Urologia pediatrica.
Participation in departmental, outpatient and operating room activities.

07/03/2019- 26/04/2019
Training network of the School of Specialization in Urology at AZIENDA USL Toscana Centro, at The S. Stefano Hospital in Prato – SOD Urologia.
Participation in departmental, outpatient and operating room activities.

01/07/2017- 23/12/2017
Replacement assignments for General Practitioners at ASL 10 Toscana Centro

Education and training

17/08/2024

Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU)

01/02/2023- 05/02/2024

Robotic fellowship at Urology Department at Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela,
Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid – Spain

29/12/2022

Master’s degree in Urology 70/70 cum laude at the University of Florence – Italy

28/12/2017 – 28/12/2022

School of Specialization in Urology at the University of Florence at Azienda Ospedaliero Unversitaria Careggi

01/03/2022 – 30/10/2022

Internship activity at Urology Department at Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela, Universidad Francisco de Victoria, Madrid – Spain- as part of the Erasmus+ traineeship programme.

01/03/2021 – 31/08/2021

Internship activity at Urology Department at Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela, Universidad Francisco de Victoria, Madrid – Spain- as part of the Erasmus+ traineeship programme.

01/05/2017 – 30/06/2017

Postgraduate internship activity at Hospital La Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Spain- as part of the Erasmus+ traineeship programme. In detail, attendance at Unidad de Cuidados Intensives Polivalente and at Urología.

27/03/2017

Member of the Provincial Order of Surgeons and Dentists of Florence – Italy
Achieved on: 27/03/2017

15/02/2017

Qualification to practice the medical profession- University of Florence – Italy

26/10/2016

Master’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery 110/110 cum laude at the University of Florence – Italy

September 2005 – June 2010

Classical high school diploma – Liceo ginnasio Galileo, Florence – Italy

 

Participation in conferences and congresses

• 02/02/2024 FUNCIONAL BY SINUG (Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neurourología y Uro Ginecología), Hotel Riu Plaza, Plaza de España, Madrid
• 23-24/11/2023 ESGURS & ESAU meeting, Department of Urology A.O.U. Careggi University of Florence
• 1-2/12/2022 MASTERCLASS in reconstructive urology and andrology, GRAND HOTEL BAGLIONI, Piazza dell’Unità Italiana, 6 Firenze
• 19-21/10/2022 EAU Section of Genito-Urinary Reconstructive Surgeons (ESGURS) meeting, 12 De Octubre Hospital, Avenida de Córdoba 28041 Madrid, Spain
• 13-14/10/2022 Curso Internacional Avances en HBP y Cáncer de Próstata, Auditorio del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Ciudad Universitaria, C/ Profesor Martín Lagos, s/n 28040 Madrid
• 30/09/2022 IV International Lower Urinary Symptoms Congress (ILUTS 22), Auditorio Reina Sofía, Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro, Madrid
• 2-7/09/2022 20th European Urology Residents Education Programme (EUREP), Prague
• 23-24/06/2022 Cadaver lab of Erectile Restoration Course at the Centro de Simulación Quirúrgica Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid
• 25-26/04/2022 4° CURSO DE UROLOGìA MADRID 2022, CUM- Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz
• 9-13/07/2021 36th Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress 2021
• 24/11/2020- 03/12/2020 MASTERCLASS IN ANDROLOGY – All you can EAT: European AndrologyTraining. Facing the Covid Era WEBINAR – Department of Urology A.O.U. Careggi University of Florence
• 11/09/2020 NUOVE EVIDENZE nella diagnosi e terapia del carcinoma prostatico- Department of Urology A.O.U. Careggi University of Florence- N.I.C. (Nuovo Ingresso Careggi) Largo Brambilla, Firenze
• 05/12/2019- 06/12/2019 MASTERCLASS IN ANDROLOGY – All you can EAT: European Andrology Training – Department of Urology A.O.U. Careggi University of Florence
• 12/10/2019- 15/10/2019 92° Congresso Nazionale SIU- Società Italiana di Urologia- Palazzo del Casinò – Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, 1861, Lido Venezia 30126
• 03/10/2019-05/10/2019 5th Meeting of the EAU Section of Urolithiasis- EAU – European Association of Urology- Milan Marriott Hotel, Via Washington 66, Milano 20146
• 10/11/2018 PerCorsi formativi SIUD – The bladder’s journey attraverso le disfunzioni vescicali – SIUD- Società Italiana di Urodinamica- Grand Hotel Baglioni – Piazza dell’Unità Italiana, 6, Firenze 50123
• 28/09/2018- 29/09/2018 PROposte terapeutiche CONdivise nel carcinoma della prostata in fase avanzata- Siuro -Società Italiana di Uro-Oncologia- Hotel NH Firenze, Piazza Vittorio Veneto 4, 50123 Firenze
• 08/03/2018-10/03/2018 «Winter school»»- SIUro- Società Italiana di Urologia Oncologica- Bellaria Hotel & Congressi, Via Altura, 11 bis Bologna 40139
• 23/02/2018 «Prostate cancers: The Pros-It study»- Department of Urology A.O.U. Careggi University of Florence

Personal skills and competences

Organizational, management and communication skills

Native speakers Italian

Other language(s) Spanish, English

Language certificates
2017: Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE) nivel C1, Instituto Cervantes
2010: First Certificate in English (FCE), Cambridge English Language Assessment – University of Cambridge

IT skills and competences MSFT Office

Artistic skills and competences

Solfeggio exam at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music in Florence – Italy

License A – B

Publications

Articles

1) Sforza S, Di Maida F, Mari A, Zaccaro C, Cini C, Tellini R, Carini M, Minervini A, Masieri L. Is a Drainage Placement Still Necessary After Robotic Reconstruction of the Upper Urinary Tract in Children? Experience from a Tertiary Referral Center. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2019 Sep;29(9):1180-1184. doi: 10.1089/lap.2019.0302. Epub 2019 Jul 29. PMID: 31355700.

2) Sforza S, Tellini R, Grosso AA, Zaccaro C, Viola L, Di Maida F, Mari A, Carini M, Minervini A, Masieri L. Can we predict the development of symptomatic lymphocele following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and lymph node dissection? Results from a tertiary referral Centre. Scand J Urol. 2020 Aug;54(4):328-333. doi: 10.1080/21681805.2020.1784270. Epub 2020 Jun 26. PMID: 32588704.

3) Sebastianelli A, Morselli S, Spatafora P, Liaci A, Gemma L, Zaccaro C, Vignozzi L, Maggi M, McVary KT, Kaplan SA, Chapple C, Gravas S, Serni S, Gacci M. Outcomes of combination therapy with daily Tadalafil 5mg plus Tamsulosin 0.4mg to treat lower urinary tract symptoms and erectile dysfunction in men with or without metabolic syndrome. Minerva Urol Nefrol. 2020 Nov 17. doi: 10.23736/S0393-2249.20.04099-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 3320

4) Morselli S, Liaci A, Nicoletti R, Pecoraro A, Gemma L, Polverino P, Zaccaro C, Sebastianelli A, Serni S, Laguna P, De La Rosette JJMC, Gravas S, Gacci M. The use of a novel smartphone app for monitoring male luts treatment during the COVID-19 outbreak. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2020 Dec;23(4):724-726. doi: 10.1038/s41391-020-0253-z. Epub 2020 Jul 14. PMID: 32665609; PMCID: PMC7359441.

5) Sforza S, Bortot G, Cini C, Zaccaro C, Masieri L. Letter to Editor regarding ‘Barriers in transitioning urologic patients from pediatric to adult care’. J Pediatr Urol. 2021 Apr;17(2):156-157. doi: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2021.01.050. Epub 2021 Feb 26. PMID: 33715997.

6) Zaccaro C, Lotti F, Morselli S, Sebastianelli A, Frizza F, Bigazzi B, Liaci A, Cai T, Vignozzi L, Vignolini G, Serni S, Gravas S, Moncada I, Salonia A, Gacci M. SECRET® – SExual Chronicle REcording Table: Validation and reliability. Andrology. 2021 May;9(3):878-885. doi: 10.1111/andr.12955. Epub 2020 Dec 17. PMID: 33275841.

7) Gacci M, Coppi M, Baldi E, Sebastianelli A, Zaccaro C, Morselli S, Pecoraro A, Manera A, Nicoletti R, Liaci A, Bisegna C, Gemma L, Giancane S, Pollini S, Antonelli A, Lagi F, Marchiani S, Dabizzi S, Degl’Innocenti S, Annunziato F, Maggi M, Vignozzi L, Bartoloni A, Rossolini G M, Serni S. Semen impairment and occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in semen after recovery from COVID-19, Human Reproduction, 2021; deab026, doi: 10.1093/humrep/deab026

8) Gacci M, Coppi M, Baldi E, Sebastianelli A, Zaccaro C, Morselli S, Pecoraro A, Manera A, Nicoletti R, Liaci A, Bisegna C, Gemma L, Giancane S, Pollini S, Antonelli A, Lagi F, Marchiani S, Dabizzi S, Nicolò S, Torcia M, Degl’innocenti S, Annunziato F, Maggi M, Vignozzi L, Bartoloni A, Rossolini GM, Serni S. Reply: COVID-19: semen impairment may not be related to the virus. Hum Reprod. 2021 Jun 18;36(7):2065-2066. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deab083. PMID: 33793848; PMCID: PMC8083456.

9) Morselli S, Sebastianelli A, Liaci A, Zaccaro C, Pecoraro A, Nicoletti R, Manera A, Bisegna C, Campi R, Pollini S, Antonelli A, Lagi F, Coppi M, Baldi E, Marchiani S, Nicolò S, Torcia M, Annunziato F, Maggi M, Vignozzi L, Bartoloni A, Rossolini GM, Serni S, Gacci M. Male reproductive system inflammation after healing from coronavirus disease 2019. Andrology. 2021 Dec 8. doi: 10.1111/andr.13138. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34889528.

10) Moncada I, Zaccaro C. Re: The Rising Incidence of Penile Prosthesis Surgery as the First Line Surgical Treatment for Peyronie’s Disease. Eur Urol. 2022 Jan;81(1):120. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2021.10.021. Epub 2021 Nov 4. PMID: 34743923.

11) Zaccaro C, Subirà D, López-Diez I, Manfredi C, Ascensios-Vargas JP, Moncada-Iribarren I. History and future perspectives of male aesthetic genital surgery. Int J Impot Res. 2022 May 10. doi: 10.1038/s41443-022-00580-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35538312.

12) Becattini, L.; Saieva, C.; Doni, L.; Roviello, G.; Spatafora, P.; Catalano, M.; Sessa, F.; Galli, I.C.; Bisegna, C.; Conte, F.L.; Zaccaro, C.; Santi, R.; Serni, S.; Nesi, G.; Villari, D. Gender and Advanced Urothelial Cancer: Outcome, Efficacy and Toxicity following Chemotherapy. Medicina 2022, 58, 886. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58070886

13) Gacci M, Baldi E, Sebastianelli A, Morselli S, Zaccaro C, Pecoraro A, Manera A, Nicoletti R, Liaci A, Pollini S, Antonelli A, Lagi F, Marchiani S, Dabizzi S, Nicolò S, Torcia M, Degl’innocenti S, Rastrelli G, De Nunzio C, Fanelli A, Annunziato F, Maggi M, Serni S. Persistent Male Genital Tract Inflammation and Semen Impairment: A Long-Term Effect of SARS-Cov-2 Infection. Ann Case Rep: 7: 848., 2022 May 21. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-646778/v1.

14) Mariotti A, Spatafora P, Sessa F, Saieva C, Galli IC, Roviello G, Doni L, Zaccaro C, Bisegna C, Conte FL, Mariottini R, Marzocco A, Masieri L, Vignolini G, Minervini A, Serni S, Carini M, Nesi G, Villari D. Gender and cystectomy for bladder cancer: A high-volume tertiary urologic care center experience. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2023 Oct;49(10):107034. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2023.107034. Epub 2023 Aug 18. PMID: 37639860.

Abstract and Smart Communications

1) Vanacore D, Morselli S, Avola E, Sforza S, Tasso G, Bossa R, Greco A, Verrienti P, Zaccaro C, Mari A, Campi R, Siena G, Minervini A, Carini M. Robotic salvage lymph node dissection in patients with node-recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: A single centre experience. European Urology Supplements 2018 Sep;17(8):337-338. doi: 10.1016/S1569-9056(18)33354-2

2) Morselli S, Li Marzi V, Spatafora P, Zaccaro C, Di Camillo M, Frizzi J, Milanesi M, Masieri L, Tosto A, Serni S. Transvaginal mesh repair for pelvic organ prolapse surgery improve patient’s quality of life at long term follow up. European Urology Supplements 2019 Mar;18(1):e1383-e1385. doi: 10.1016/S1569-9056(19)31002-4

3) Sforza S, Mari A, Zaccaro C, Tellini R, Grosso A, Di Maida F, Pani E, Carini M, Minervini A, Masieri L. Is still necessary a drainage placement after robotic reconstruction of the upper urinary tract in children? experience from a tertiary referral center. European Urology Supplements 2019 Oct;18(9):e3211-e3212. doi: 10.1016/S1569-9056(19)33569-9

4) Sforza S, Tellini R, Grosso A A, Zaccaro C, Viola L, Rosi E M, Di Maida F, Muto G, Salvi M, Tuccio A, Carini M, Minervini A, Masieri L. Can we predict the development of symptomatic lymphocele following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and lymph node dissection? Results from a high-volume tertiary referral centre. European Urology Open Science 2020 Jul;19:e2115-e2116. doi: 10.1016/S2666-1683(20)34031-3

5) Taverna M, Mantovani A, Cini C, Zaccaro C, Dell’Otto F, Bortot G, Cianci M C, Landi L, Elia A, Giordano F, Masieri L. Urodynamic evaluation before and after surgery for retethering in patients with myelomeningocele. European Urology Open Science 2020 Oct;20:S188. doi: 10.1016/S2666-1683(20)35665-2

6) Sforza S, Tellini R, Grosso A A, Zaccaro C, Viola L, Di Maida F, Mari A, Cito G, Cocci A, Scelzi S, Carini M, Minervini A, Masieri L. Risk factors for development a symptomatic lymphocele after lymph node dissection in a radical robotic prostatectomy: experience from a single center. European Urology Open Science 2020 Oct;20:S146. doi: 10.1016/S2666-1683(20)35569-5

7) C. Zaccaro, A. Alberti, R. Nicoletti, E. Dibilio, G.R. Resta, D. Subirà, I. Lopez-Díez, J.P. Ascensios-Vargas, R. Campi, S. Ser¬ni, M. Gacci, I. Moncada-Iribarren (Madrid) Minimally invasive robot-assisted simple pro-statectomy with laparoscopic in-pouch mor¬cellation compared to conventional minimally invasive prostatectomy MINERVA UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY Volume 75. Suppl. 1 No5 October 23, SC64

8) G. Maiolino, J. Romero-Otero, M. Hevia Palacios, L. Bialek, M. Skrzypczyk, L.S. Peri Cusí, M. Costa Grau, J. Medina Polo, E. García-Rojo, J.I. Martínez-Salamanca, R. Oliveira Curvo, E. Lledó García, M.A. Sánchez Ochoa, A. Zucchi, A. Perotti, I. Moncada, C. Zaccaro, MJ. Pankaj, J.M. Gómez de Vicente, M.B. Alonso Bartolomé, E. Fernández-Pascual, P. Szyperski, J. Szyperski, D. López, A. Fraile Poblador. P43 – International multicenter retrospective study on high-risk patients who underwent artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) Implantation with Transcorporal versus Standard technique, European Urology Open Science, Volume 57, Supplement 2, 2023, Pages S427-S428, ISSN 2666-1683, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-1683(23)02364-9. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666168323023649)