VERONESI GIULIA

Professor Giulia Veronesi is an Full Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and Director of the Thoracic Surgery Division at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan (Italy). She previously headed of Director of the Program Robotic Thoracic Surgery at San Raffaele Hospital. She previously headed of Director of the Robotic Thoracic Surgery Unit at Humanitas Clinical Institute–Rozzano (Italy) and screening and Lung Cancer prevention unit at European Institute of Oncology. Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan in 1994. Specialist in Thoracic Surgery in2006 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Specialist in Surgery of the Digestive System and Surgical Digestive Endoscopy in2000University of Milan.National Scientific License for Associated Professor in Thoracic Surgery in 2013Ministry of Education, University and Research.National Scientific License for Full Professor in Thoracic Surgery in2018Ministry of Education, University and Research.She has led one of the largest European lung cancer screening programs using low dose tomography and MicroRNA testing in high risk individuals and was principal investigator of several lung cancer chemo prevention trials funded by the American National Cancer Institute including the randomized study on inhaled Budesonide compared to placebo for screen detected lung nodules and the randomized study on the protective role of Aspirin in healthy subjects with subsolid lung lesions.Since2007she has developed a robotic surgery program for oncological chest diseases, she is tutor of robotic surgery in Italy and other European countries. She has instituted an European working group within the European Society of Thoracic Surgery on Robotics Surgery focused on training and education.
She won the Robert J.Ginsburg Lectureship Award for Surgery(20th WCLC–Spain).Her academic contributions include more than286publications in peer-reviewed indexed international journals, HI49.