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Il dott. Gianfranco Buccheri.		 Curriculum vitae

Personal data
Date of birth: 01-01-1952
Nationality: Italian
Address Home: Corso Barale 97, I-12011 Borgo San Dalmazzo (CN), Italy;
cellular phone: +39.33923996116;
e-mail: buccheri@gem.it;
Office: Corso Barale 9, I-12011 Borgo San Dalmazzo, (CN), Italy;
tel.: +39.0171.1988033; fax: +39.0171.426916;
e-mail: buccheri@culcasg.org and buccheri@alcase.it; internet: www.culcasg.org and www.alcase.it

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Qualifications
– 1975 - 1976: Intern in Medicine (Clinica Medica, University of Pavia
– 1976: M.D. graduation (overall score: 110/110), “Forlanini” Medical School, University of Pavia (regist. no. 29000, years 1975-1976)
– 1980: Board certified (no.502, mtr. no. 4515/a), Phthisis and other Respiratory Diseases (Tisiologia e Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio), University of Genoa
– 1983: Board certified (no. 3040, matr. no. 3158/a), Physiopathology of Respiration and Respiratory Physiokinetic Therapy (Fisiopatologia Respiratoria e Fisiochinesiterapia Respiratoria), University of Genoa
– 1992: Board certified (no. 118811/07), Medical Oncology (Oncologia Medica), University of Pavia

Current Employment
Since 1982 up to date: 1st level Medical Director with charge of Thoracic Oncology (Dirigente Medico di 1mo livello con Incarico Dirigenziale di Pneumoncologia), Cuneo City Hospitals (Azienda Ospedaliera “S. Croce e Carle” di Cuneo)

Previous Employments
– 1976-1977: Assistant Doctor in Tubercolosis of the Lung (assistente in clinica tisiologica), Istituto Climatico di Robilante, Cuneo. Supervising specialist: Dr. Capitolo, MD

– 1977-1979: Assistant Doctor in Internal Medicine, Savigliano city hospital (assistente presso il reparto di Medicina Generale dell’Ospedale “SS. Annunziata” di Savigliano). Supervising Specialist: Prof. Resegotti, MD

– 1979-1982: Assistant Doctor in Internal Medicine, Cuneo City Hospital (assistente di ruolo nella divisione di Medicina Generale, Ospedale “S. Croce” di Cuneo). Supervising specialist: Prof. Buffa, MD

Medical Registration
Licence to practice released by the Italian Republic – University of Pavia (regist.no. 952; years ’76-77). Pending registration in the British GMC

Training
Specialty trainings at the “Clinica Tisiologica dell’Universita’ di Genova”, director Prof. Valenti (supervisor: Prof. V. Brusasco) and the Institute of General Pathology, University of Pavia, director Prof. Santamaria.

Repeated sojourns abroad as a visiting clinician
– 1988: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, US. Hosting clinician: Prof. J.R. Jett, MD

– 1989: M.D. Anderson Hospital, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, US. Hosting clinician: Dr. De Caro, MD

– 1990: Royal Brompton Hospital e University College Hospitals, London, UK. Hosting Clinician: Prof. S. Spiro

– 1995: Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Hosting clinician: Prof. J.R. Jett, MD

– 1999: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, US. Hosting clinician: Prof. J.R. Jett, MD

Teaching Responsabilities
– 1984-1986: Teacher of Microbiology at the Nursing School of the “S. Croce”, Cuneo City Hospital

– 1998: Teacher at a “Meet the Professor Seminar” on Lung Tumor Markers, at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society

Experience
a. Diagnosis, anatomical stage assessment, respiratory functional evaluation, treatment planning (table 1 &3), chemotherapy execution (table 2), and post-treatment follow-up of patients with lung cancer (on average, 100 new cases per year; in all, over 1,600 treated).
b. Review of diagnostic and therapeutic protocols; data management, statistical analysis, and findings publication.
c. Economic budget planning and verification.
d. Work and personnel organization.

Staff (Dr. Ferrigno, Dr. Buccheri with two nurses).

Affiliations to medical societies
– Associazione Italiana Pneumologi Ospedalieri (AIPO)
– European Respiratory Society (ERS)
– International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
– American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)
– American Thoracic Society (ATS)
– American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Courses and conference attended (as an “Invited Speaker”, “Co-Chairman”, “Poster Discussion Coordinator”, or as a member of the “Programme Scientific Committee”)

Since 1992 up to date, all the annual meeting of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Since 1994 up to date, all the World Conferences on Lung Cancer organized by the International Association for Lung Cancer Study (IASLC).

In all, 58 active, invited participations in National or International meetings:

1. Incontri di Aggiornamento. Ipertensione Arteriosa, problemi pratici di diagnosi e terapia, Cuneo, 1981 (Invited Speaker)

2. Aggiornamenti in Pneumologia. La patologia infettiva del polmone, Cuneo, 1984 (Invited Speaker)

3. III Corso di Aggiornamento in Oncologia. Attualità nella diagnosi e trattamento delle neoplasie polmonari e del mieloma, Cuneo, 1984 (Invited Speaker)

4. Attualità in tema di pneumopatie infettive acute, Cuneo, 1985 (Invited Speaker)

5. 1° Corso di Oncologia Polmonare per il medico di base. 2° Giornata, Cuneo, 1988 (Invited Speaker)

6. 1° Corso di Oncologia Polmonare per il medico di base. 3° Giornata, Cuneo, 1988 (Invited Speaker)

7. 1° Corso di Oncologia Polmonare per il medico di base. 4° Giornata, Cuneo, 1989 (Invited Speaker)

8. Progressi in Oncologia Polmonare. Terapia delle Ostruzioni Bronchiali Neoplastiche, Cuneo, 1989 (Co-Chairmen)

9. Progressi in Oncologia Polmonare. Treatment of Unresectable Lung Cancer, Cuneo, 1990 (Co-Chairman)

10. 1° Incontro Cuneese di Aggiornamento in Oncologia Polmonare, Cuneo, 1991 (Invited Speaker)

11. 1° Congresso Mediterraneo ALGOMED, lettura sul tema: “Attualità sul Mesotelioma”, Perpignan, France, 1992 (Invited Speaker)

12. Congresso “Highlights in Pneumology – 1992: il Cancro del Polmone, Naples, 1982 (Invited Speaker)

13. 1992 ERS Annual Congress, Vienna, Austria, 1992 (Poster Discussion Chairperson)

14. 2° Incontro Cuneese di Aggiornamento in Oncologia Polmonare, Cuneo, 1992 (Organizer)

15. 1993 ERS Annual Congress, Florence, 1993 (Poster Discussion Coordinator)

16. II Corso di Aggiornamento in Pneumologia, Naples, 1994 (Invited Speaker)

17. 7° Congresso Mondiale sul Tumore del Polmone, Colorado Springs, Colorado, US, 1994 (Invited Speaker & Chairman of a Pathology Oral session and Co-Chairman of a Mini-symposium)

18. 1994 ERS Annual Congress, Nice, France, 1994 (Chairman of Oral Presentation Session & Invited Speaker)

19. 1° International Lung Cancer Conference, Alba, 1994 (Invited Speaker)

20. 1995 ERS Annual Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 1995 (Poster Discussion Co-Chairman)

21. Il Tumore del Polmone nell’Anziano, Milan, 1996 (Invited Speaker)

22. 1996 ERS Annual Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996 (Oral session Co-Chairman & Thematic Poster Session Coordinator)

23. Congresso SIMER, Rome, 1996 (Invited Speaker)

24. Corso Parallelo della Scuola Superiore di Oncologia e Scienze Biomediche (SSOSB), Torino, 1996 (Course Director, Co-Chairman, Teacher)

25. 62° Annual International Scientific Assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, San Francisco, California, US, 1996 (Co-moderator, Slide Presentation Session)

26. Top Seminars in Broncopneumologia, Regello (Florence), 1997 (Invited Speaker)

27. Seminario della Fondazione Salvator Maugeri, Veruno, 1997 (Invited Speaker)

28. European Seminars in Respiratory Medicine, Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1997 (Invited Speaker)

29. 8° Congresso Mondiale sul Tumore del Polmone, Dublin, Ireland, 1997 (Invited Speaker, Oral Session Co-chairperson & Member of the International Programme Committee)

30. 1997 ERS Annual Congress, Berlin, Germany, 1997 (Oral session Co-Chairman)

31. 34° Congresso Nazionale AIPO, Vieste sul Gargano, 1997 (Invited Speaker)

32. Conferenza Italo-Giordana su “Advances in Pneumology”, Amman, Jordan, 1998 (Invited Speaker)

33. ALA/ATS International Conference, Chicago, Illinois, US, 1998 (Chair of a Poster Colloquium, Speaker at a Meet the Professor Seminar, Abstract reviewer & Member of the Program Committee of the Clinical Assembly)

34. 4° Convegno Interregionale AIPO Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta, Saint Vincent, 1998 (Invited Speaker)

35. 2° Cuneo Lung Cancer Conference, Terme di Vinadio,1998 (Conference Chairman & Invited Speaker)

36. 3° International Congress on Lung Cancer, Rhodes, Greece, 1998 (Invited Speaker & Co-chairperson)

37. 4° Congresso Nazionale della Societa’ Italiana di Medicina Respiratoria, Torino, 1998 (Co-Chairman)

38. Corso di Aggiornamento Post-Laurea sullo Staging del Carcinoma Polmonare, Genoa, 1998 (Teacher)

39. 5° Convegno Interregionale AIPO Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta, Asti, 1999 (Invited Speaker)

40. The IASLC-WAB Joint International Conference, Genoa, 1999 (Invited Speaker)

41. Convegno Cuneese “L’Impegno Medico per un Ambiente Migliore”, Cuneo, 2000 (Invited Speaker)

42. 2000 ERS Annual Congress, Florence, 2000 (Thematic Poster Session Chairperson)

43. 9° Congresso Mondiale sul Tumore del Polmone, Tokyo, Japan, 2000 (Member of the International Programme Committee)

44. 5° Convegno Interregionale AIPO Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta, Torino 26-27, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

45. Convegno Interregionale “Le Emergenze Pneumologiche”, Alessandria, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

46. Corso Teorico Pratico AIPO “Disassuefazione al Fumo di Tabacco”, Torino, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

47. International Meeting “Respiratory Oncology”, Leuven, Belgium, 2001 (Speaker-Discussant in a Working Group Session);

48. Congresso Nazionale “Medicina Respiratoria: Nuovi Orientamenti nella Prevenzione, Diagnosi e Terapia”, Reggio Emilia, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

49. Global Lung Cancer Patient Group Meeting, Paris, France, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

50. Seminari della Clinica di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio dell’Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, 2001 (Teacher)

51. 2001 ERS Annual Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2001 (Co-Chairman & Abstract Reviewer)

52. International Conference on “Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Standards and New Trends in Diagnosis and Therapy”, Bialystok , Poland, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

53. Educational Media Workshop “Present and Future Perspectives in Lung Cancer”, Lisbon, Portugal, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

54. Convegno “Up-to-date: I Corticosteroidi nella Patologia Polmonare”, Stresa, 2001 (Invited Speaker)

55. Corso Teorico-Pratico sulle Infezioni Polmonari, Torino, 2002 (Co-Chairman)

56. VI Convegno Interregionale AIPO Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta “Il Cancro del Polmone”, Cuneo, 2002 (Invited Speaker & Conference Chairman)

57. GLCC 2002 Meeting, Orlando, Florida, US (Invited Speaker)

58. 2002 ERS Annual Congress, Stockholm, Sweden (Poster Discussion Coordinator)

Research fields and Publications

Research fields up to the year 1984:
– Exercise testing
– Pulmonary embolism
– Bronchial and lung infections (hospital and community-based)

Since 1984 up to date: lung cancer. More specifically:
– Clinical meaning and use of serum tumour markers
– Preoperative tumour stage assessment by means of Nuclear Medicine imaging techniques (e.g., scintigraphy with Ga-67, anti-CEA monoclonal antibodies, Tl-201, Tc-99 Tetrofosmin)
– Chemotherapy
– Prognostic Factors
– Quality of life evaluations (see the scientific results page)

Author or co-author of nearly 300 publications, including original investigations, review articles, or book chapters (see the published studies page).

Eighty-five publications are available for consultation on the MEDLINE, at the Internet address: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Reviewer or referee for the following journals:
– American Journal of Respiratory Medicine
– Cancer
– Cancer Journal
– European Respiratory Journal
– European Respiratory Review
– Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
– Lung Cancer
– Medical Science Monitor
– Monaldi Archives of Chest Diseases
– Rassegna di Patologia dell’Apparato Respiratorio
– Respiration
– Thorax

From 1996 to 2001, he was member of the Editorial Boad of Lung Cancer, the official journal of the IASLC

International recognitions
In August 1997, honoured by ALCASE (Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support and Education, www.alcase.org) at the 8th World Conference on Lung Cancer (Dublin, Ireland). Recognised, along with 16 other lung cancer doctors from 9 countries, for “outstanding contributions in the treatment, research and/or quality of life of lung cancer patients”.

Patient Support, Advocacy, and Education (parallel, non-profit, voluntary activities)
In 1994, founder of the Cuneo Lung Cancer Study Group (www.culcasg.org). Currently, Scientific Secretary. In 1998, founder of the patient’s advocacy group, ALCASE Italia (www.alcase.it)

Representative of a member organization within the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (www.lungcancercoalition.org)

 

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