Roberto Valcavi MD, FACE is specialist in Endocrinology and in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Roberto Valcavi has started to perform thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in 1977 when he was medical student, he initiated to work with thyroid ultrasound in 1983, and first did thyroid ablative therapies with ethanol in 1992.

He is the former Director of the Endocrinology Department at (IRCCS – ASMN) in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

In 1999 he founded the AME (Italian Association of Endocrinologists) and is AME Past President. In 2004 in Boston Dr. Roberto Valcavi received the “International Clinician Award” in recognition of the advances achieved in favor of clinical endocrinology and for the benefit of all endocrine patients.

Currently Roberto Valcavi is Director of the ETC International Clinic. (Endocrine Thyroid International Clinic) in Reggio Emilia dedicated to the diagnosis and therapy of endocrine neck (thyroid, parathyroid, lymph nodes) benign and malignant lesions.

He is expert in thyroidology, thyroid ultrasonology, and ultrasound-guided minimally invasive surgery of thyroid nodules by ethanol (EA) radio frequency (RFA), Laser LA), and Microwave (MWA) ablation.

Dr. Roberto Valcavi is President-in-Office of the TNT Association (International Association for Thyroid Nodules Therapies). He published 91 Pubmed indexed papers and numerous chapters in books. He was organizer, speaker and chairman in a great number of Courses, Workshops, Meetings, and Congresses.