International Continence Society

Prof. Emilio Sacco is a Senior Urologist at the Urology Department of the Agostino Gemelli Academic Hospital Foundation, Associate Professor of Urology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy. He is Chair of the Functional Urology Unit, Lead Physician for urinary tract infections control and robotic urologic surgery.
After graduating from University of Padua in 1999, he completed the residence in Urology at the Urology department of the Academic Hospital of Padua in 2004. After a one-year fellowship in 2006 at the Department of Urology of the Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK, he was hired as Urologist at the Urology Department of the Agostino Gemelli Academic Hospital Foundation in Rome, Italy, where he achieved his PhD qualification in Andrologic Urology in 2009 and the qualification of "High Specialization" in functional urology in 2012. He was hired as a Researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in 2017 and was appointed Associate Professor of Urology in 2021. Author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and several educational publications, he has conducted numerous studies in the field of oncologic and functional urology as principal investigator and co-investigator. Member of the major national and international scientific societies in the field of Urology, he participated as speaker and chairman in several national and international conferences. Director of a postgraduate academic training course in male urinary incontinence at the Catholic University of Rome.
Special scientific field of interest: lower urinary tract disorders and in particular male and female urinary incontinence, genital prolapse, urinary infections, interstitial cystitis and chronic pelvic pain, robotic urologic surgery.