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Born on February 17th 1991 in Colombia, due to his father's job, Gianraffaele Avallone is an Italian Medical Student. Raised in Italy surrounded by the love of his great family, it was his mother, a Clinical Biologist, who first introduced him to the wonders of Natural Sciences with the animated TV-show "Esplorando il Corpo Umano". Since the young age of 5, he has always showed a "scientific mind", easily achieving great successes in subjects like Math, Arithmetics, Natural Sciences, and so on, helped by his photographical memory. Growing up nurturing the idea of following his father footsteps as an Engineer, it was only at the age of 16, during his 3rd year of Liceo Scientifico, that he fell (again) in love with the human body and its "mystical" laws. He then decided to take the Access Test to the School of Medicine and Surgery of The University of L'Aquila (former Faculty of Medicine and Surgery). He graduated in 2009 with a score of 98/100. In 2010, at the age of 19 yo, he passed the Access Test at the first try, placing himself 47th out of 135 (number of places available), on a total of more then 1000 students trying. (Score: 45.5/80) He since then devotes himself totally to the cause of becoming the best Doctor he can, working and studying with the sole purpose of acquiring new informations that will be useful for him and of course his future patients. During the second semester of the 2nd year of Med School, he won a "Borsa di Collaborazione per Studenti", which granted him the occasion working, for the entire 3rd year, as a Borsista (Student Tutor) to the Anatomy Lab of Autonomous and Guided Study, an activity coordinated by the Professors of Human Anatomy. He his actually attending the Department of Vascular Surgery of Ospedale San Salvatore of L'Aquila as an "Allievo Interno" (Resident Student). His fields of interest are: Vascular Surgery, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Semeiotic, Internal Medicine, Human Physiology. He speaks Italian (mother language), and has an excellent knowledge of both written and spoken English. He also speaks a little bit of German, French and a few words of Japanese, languages that he is self-teaching.