Curriculum vitae

Dr Renato Bicciato was born in Bolzano on August 27th, 1954.

He graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery with an experimental thesis on the “Relationship between the thyroid and lipid metabolism in ischemic heart disease patients” at the University of Padua in 1981, receiving his professional licence to practise the same year. He is currently enrolled in the Order of Doctors in the Province of Treviso (enrolment No. 6041).

In 1985, he specialized in Cardiology at the University of Padua, Verona campus, and until 1995 he was specialist cardiologist for the Health Service of Trentino Alto Adige.

For several years, he worked as a phlebologist in the Nobesis clinic of Bolzano and participated in national phlebology disease prevention campaigns conducted by the Italian Phlebology Society.

During his career he has attended several national and international courses on various branches of cardiology, dietetics, medical aesthetics and outpatient phlebology and has performed aesthetic plastic surgery in collaboration with Professor Pollacci Dovilio, a specialist in reconstructive plastic surgery.
In 1998, he received dietician qualifications from the Order of Doctors in Bolzano.

Since 1981, he has dealt with obesity and weight problems and the resulting cardiovascular disease and aesthetic problems associated with weight gain and weight loss through a multidimensional approach. In his professional career, he has treated thousands of patients with success after years of study and application in different but adjacent branches of medicine.

He is currently Scientific Director of the four VITAinLINEA Group centres.

He has been an active member of the Italian Society of Aesthetic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine (SIES) since 1986, a member of the Italian Association of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition (ADI) since 2002 and a member of the Italian Society of Phlebology (SIF) since 1986.