Since 1997, Member of the Italian Society of Urology (SIU)
Since 1998, Member of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie (DGU)
Since 1999, Member of the Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie (ÖGU)
Since 2002, Member of the Italian Society of Oncological Urology (SIUrO)
Since 2002, Member of the Hospital Urologists Association(AURO)
Since 2003, Member of the European Association of Urology (UAE)
15/10/2001-19/10/2001, Basic and Advanced Course of Laparoscopy at Ethicon Endosurgery Institute in Norderstedt (Hamburg)
18/9/2001 , Course "SPARC" (Intervention for stress incontinence)
4/3/2002-7/3/2002, Urological Laparoscopy Course at Ethicon Endosurgery
Institute in Norderstedt (Hamburg)
February 2004, Prostatectomy Radical Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Course at Prof. Dr. J.U. Stolzenburg, Urological Clinic University of Leipzig (Germany)
July 2005, Reviewer of "European Urology"
April 2006, Reviewer of "Yonsei Medical Journal" (Seoul, Korea)
June 2006, 3rd Best Video Award, SIU National Congress: "The use of autologous fibrin glue for hemostasis in partial videolaparoscopic nephrectomy" , Schips et al.
April 2007, Primary U.O. Urology Hospital "San Pio da Pietrelcina", Vasto (introduction of new surgical techniques: Laparoscopy, endoscopic laser surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia, PDD fluorescence for bladder urotelial cancer, Botox use for neurological bladder)
2007, Editorial Board of the Magazine "Italian Archive of Urology and Andrology"
23/7/2008, First Nephrectomy Intervention with S.I.L.S Technique carried out in Italy October 2008, First Nephrectomy Intervention with Single Technique Port in Italy October 2008, First Intervention of Surrenalectomia with Single Port Technique in Europe
February 2009, 2nd prize Single Port laparoscopy nephrectomy and adrenalectomy: initial experience with multichannel trocar, The 2nd World Congress on Controversies in Urology (CURy) Lisbon, Portugal
February 5-8, 2009 April 2009, First intervention of Partial Nephrectomy in the absence of ischemia with Single Port technique performed in Europe