Professor Ari Leppäniemi (MD, PhD, FACS(H), FISS, DMCC)
Professor Ari Leppäniemi (MD, PhD, FACS(H), FISS, DMCC) is the retired Chief of Emergency Surgery at the Helsinki University Hospital, Finland. He is a specialist General and Gastroenterological Surgery with subsequent training and diplomas in Prehospital Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Disaster Medicine and International Health Care. He has worked as a Field Surgeon for the International Red Cross for civil wars of Cambodia, Sudan and Afghanistan, and as a Volunteer Surgeon for UNDP in Tuvalu and as Senior House in Zaria, Nigeria.
He is the Past-President of the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Finnish Society of Surgery, International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care, and the Ambroise Pare International Military Surgery Forum and President-elect of the International Society of Surgery.
He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, Editor of the European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, and Associate Editor of the World Journal of Surgery and World Journal of Emergency Surgery.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association, European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Finnish Society of Surgery, Finnish Trauma Association and Finnish Society for Digestive Surgery, and in 2014 was appointed as Surgeon of the Year by the Finnish Surgical Society.
He has published more than 280 original articles, about 200 review articles, book chapters and dissertations, and over 150 editorials, letters, commentaries and other articles, mostly on abdominal trauma, acute pancreatitis and abdominal compartment syndrome.
His hobbies include fishing, badminton, and jazz.
