Prof di Summa obtains his FMH title as a specialist in Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery in 2015 starting his consultant career.
He is currently Head of Department of the Centre Hospitalier Univeristaire Vaudois (CHUV), with the role of consultant lead for breast and lymphatics microsurgical reconstruction. Trained in the world-renowned Canniesburn Plastic Surgery unit in Glasgow (UK), he has a particular focus in complex  post-oncological microsurgical reconstruction (e.g. sarcoma) and complex lower limb reconstruction.

Particularly active in the research field since his early career, Pr di Summa obtains his PhD title from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2012, focusing on the role of adipose-derived stem cells in nerve regeneration. Since then, he targeted his attention on nerve tissue engineering after trauma, receiving a second MD title from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in 2015. He is as well extremely active in clinical research with over 170 Pubmed-indexed publications on general plastic, aesthetic and microsurgical research. In 2017, he received from the University of Lausanne the title of Privat Docent and Maître de Recherche before becoming Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne in 2022.

He is a full member of the Swiss Society of Plastic Surgery (SSCPRE), of the Italian Society of Microsurgery (SIM), of the prestigious European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) and overseas member of the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). He has been recently appointed as Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)