Giulia Veronesi, MD

Professor Giulia Veronesi is Director of Robotic Thoracic Surgery Program at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan.

She previously headed of Robotic Thoracic Surgery Unit at Humanitas Clinical Institute–Rozzano (MI) from 2015 to 2019. Director of Lung Cancer Screening Unit at the Thoracic Surgery Division at European Institute of Oncology since 2004 – 2009.

She has led one of the largest European lung cancer screening programs (COSMOS studies) 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.

Since 2007 she has developed a robotic surgery program for oncological chest diseases, she is tutor of robotic surgery in Italy and other European countries. 

She has designed and co-ordinated an international multicentre randomized trial to compare robotic and manual videotoroscopic surgery for the treatment of lung cancer and has instituted an European working group within the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) on Robotics Surgery focused on training and education.

She has received numerous two awards in 2017 of the Women and Technology and in 2019 dedicated to surgery - the Lectureship Prize for Surgery by Robert J. Ginsburg (World Conference on Lung Cancer – IASLC). She has been invited speaker in over 120 national and international conferences and author of 210 scientific articles with a HI of 37.

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Terms of Appointment: March 2020 - February 2022;  March 2022 - February 2024