Maurizio Vecchi

Professor Maurizio Vecchi is a Gastroenterologist and Digestive Endoscopist at Casa di Cura La Madonnina.

After obtaining his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1979 from the University of Milan, in 1987 he specialized at the same university in Gastroenterology and, in 1992, in Internal Medicine.

During his training and professional career, Professor Vecchi attended important international clinical and academic institutions, including the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (USA), where he completed a continuous fellowship period in 1985 and 1986. From that moment on, the professor collaborated on several occasions with the same College as well as with other prestigious international gastroenterology institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and Rutgers University, where he carried out short periods of activity as visiting scientist and visiting professor.

As regards his academic career, in 2002 he was appointed by the University of Milan as Associate Professor in Gastroenterology; from 2015 until the end of October 2025 he held the position of Full Professor in this specialty at the same University.

In the meantime, after years of clinical activity as assistant and then senior hospital physician at the Internal Medicine Clinic of Policlinico Hospital of Milan, in 2005 he was appointed to direct the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato. In 2017 he returned to Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico of Milan with the role of Director of the Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, a position he held until the end of October 2025. Here he had the opportunity to carry out clinical and research activities in all the fundamental fields of Gastroenterology, coordinating one of the most active, productive and renowned gastroenterology structures in Italy. Professor Vecchi is still a member of the hospital’s Technical-Scientific Council.

At Casa di Cura La Madonnina, Professor Vecchi performs outpatient consultations, hospital admissions and diagnostic and operative endoscopic examinations (the latter under conscious sedation or deep sedation in a Day Hospital setting) in the field of gastroenterology.

His clinical activity focuses on all adult gastroenterological diseases with particular interest in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) and celiac disease, mentioned above, but also gastroesophageal reflux disease and oncological and functional disorders.