Luca Stocchi is professor of surgery and the current chair of the division of colon and rectal surgery in the department of surgery at Mayo Clinic in Florida. He joined Mayo Clinic Florida in March 2019 from the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, where he served as the Story-Garschina endowed chair in colorectal surgery as well as a staff surgeon, professor of surgery, and head of the research section of the department of colorectal surgery.
A native of Milan, Italy, he graduated Magna cum Laude from the Facolta’ di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita’ di Bologna. He received most of his post-graduate training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN including a general surgery residency and a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery; research fellowships in the immunology of colorectal cancer and in minimally invasive colorectal surgery.