Prof.Matteo Piovella Italy

Matteo Piovella, MD, is an internationally acclaimed cataract and refractive surgery expert and has a private practice at Global Center for Ophthalmology in Monza (Milan), Italy. piovella@piovella.com Dr Piovella is the President of the Italian Ophthalmological Society – SOI, (2010/2027) an institution that represents the 7000 Italian eye doctors. He is the recipient of the highest international awards for cataract and refractive surgery. Dr Piovella has been sharing his experience with eye doctors worldwide, having taught in 278 Instruction Course Programs organized as Senior Instructor held during various esteemed international meetings. (AAO AECOS APACRS APAO ASCRS ESCRS IIIC SOE) Through these international meetings, he has performed 150 live surgery demonstrations to share his knowledge and innovative techniques in the field of cataract and refractive surgery. His scientific studies have generated 809 scientific paper presentations. His major interest is spreading Refractive Cataract Surgery in the world. Since 2018 over 95% of his cataract patients underwent surgery with Trifocal IOL implantation. He identified the essential role of advance biometry in achieving the perfect correction of visual defects and presbyopia after cataract surgery and formulated in 2023 indications, the MAPRY protocol, to treat Evaporative Dry Eye and MGD. This protocol is now applied to all candidate for refractive cataract and refractive surgery.