| 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) |