Role
Oncologist, former Director of Oncology at Bellaria Hospital, Local Health Authority IRCCS Neurological Sciences of Bologna
Bio
In July 1981, she graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua with a thesis on "Peptichermi in the treatment of ovarian cancer." She subsequently specialized in tumor studies, obtaining a specialization in Medical Oncology with a thesis entitled: "Combined chemotherapy-surgical treatment of small cell lung cancer." She attended the Radiotherapy Department of the Royal Marsden , London, the Oncology Department of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston , Texas, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA . She continued her research career and became Director of the Neuro-Oncology unit at the University Hospital of Padua. Since 2006, she has been Director of the Complex Operating Unit of Medical Oncology at the Bologna Local Health Authority. She is the global Principal Investigator of numerous clinical studies.
She drafted the guidelines for the treatment of brain tumors. She continues to provide her contribution as an Expert Consultant for the European Medicines Agency ( EMA Expert ), and is part of the Scientific Committee of many international institutes for the evaluation of oncology projects. She is a member of the regional group for rare tumors, co-responsible for the PDTA Breast and Lung-AUSL Bologna program, Head of the PDTA Brain Tumors Clinic at AUSL Bologna, and a member of the Emilia-Romagna Oncology Commission. author of numerous national and international scientific articles.