This section of the website illustrates the governance structure of the Department of General and Specialist Surgery. The department is led by the Director, who represents the structure for all legal purposes and guarantees its autonomy and cultural unity. For the purpose of pursuing its institutional tasks, the Department has organizational and administrative autonomy with regard to all expenditure, contractual and conventional provisions that concern it directly, with both public and private subjects, in compliance with current legislation, excluding however the possibility of general administrative measures or relating to matters reserved for other bodies identified for this purpose by the Statute of Wisdom. The organs of the Department are: Department Council, Director, Board. The Director of the Department is assisted in the management of the Department's activities by the Administrative Secretary, who is responsible for the Administrative Secretariat and coordinates the administrative-accounting activities, assuming responsibility, jointly and severally with the Director, for the consequent acts.