Alberto Reggiori, MD
Alberto Reggiori was born in Italy in 1957. He graduated from medical school in 1983 and completed his residency in Surgery in 1988 at the University of Milan, Italy. From 1985 to 1996, he lived in Uganda, participating in several health projects supported by AVSI (Italian NGO), working in the following hospitals: Kitgum, Hoima (rural and post-war areas), and Mulago University Hospital in Kampala. In Africa, he practiced medicine as a clinician, surgeon, obstetrician-gynecologist, and public health officer. He also collaborated with organizations devoted to the cure of AIDS.
In 1996, he moved back to Italy, and he has been working in the Department of General and Emergency Surgery at the Varese Government hospital. However, his collaboration with AVSI continued up to now by means of short missions in emergency or critical situations requiring medical intervention in different areas of the globe: Albania, Rwanda, Uganda, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Congo, Sri Lanka, India, South Sudan, and most recently, Haiti.
He wrote a book entitled “Dottore, e’ finito il diesel” (Doctor, the diesel ended), reporting his medical and human experience in Africa, and he was among the founders of a primary school in Hoima.
He has also been involved in the organization of conferences related to health care and medical education, concerned with the dignity and the centrality of the person in medical practice.
Married to Patrizia, they have 7 children.