Dr. Mario Cherubino

Dr. Mario Cherubino, MD, is a Staff Physician in the Plastic Surgery Department at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. 

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Cherubino was a consultant in a medical center in Dubai, UAE. Before that, he was an Associate Professor in the University of Insubria, Department of Biotechnology and Science of Life in Varese, Italy. He has also been the director of the Microsurgery and Surgery of the lymphatic's Research Center and Chief of Microsurgery and Hand Surgery Unit at the A.S.S.T. Settelaghi Varese, Italy. He focuses his activities on microsurgery reconstruction and hand surgery, lower extremities, and Head & Neck and breast reconstruction. 

Dr. Cherubino received his medical degree from the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy. He completed his residency at University of Palermo and University of Insubria, Italy. He spent a period as a visiting research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, US, in Stem Cell research, under Dr. Peter Rubin and Kacey Marra. 

In 2010 he moved to the Multimedica Hospital's Hand Surgery division, Milano's University, Italy, where he learnt about hand surgery and microsurgery. In 2011, he continued his fellowship at the Hand Surgery Division, in the Hospital Careggi, Florence, Italy. 

Dr. Cherubino is member of the Italian Hand Surgery Society council and is a Fellow of the European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He was the International Scholar of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS/PSF program) for 2019-2020, at the Presbyterial Hospital in New York city. 

Dr. Cherubino has presented as an invited speaker at several international conferences. He is a member of the Harvard Alumni community after the SLP  2018-2019 program at Harvard Medical School. He has also published more than one hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals.  

Dr. Cherubino resides in Abu Dhabi with his wife Chiara. When he's not practicing he loves to cook and read about history, enjoying the beauty of the UAE.