Riccardo Audisio
Professor Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, PhD(Hon), FRCS, FEBS
Department of Surgery
Institute of Clinical Sciences
Blå Stråket 5
Sahlgrenska University Hospital 413 45 Göteborg, Sweden
email: raudisio@doctors.org.uk
mobile: +39 349 258 6556
Riccardo A. Audisio was born in Milan, Italy, where he completed his
High School at the Istituto Leone XIII in 1975. He graduated in Padua in
Medicine & Surgery (1980) and specialised in General Surgery at the University of Verona (1985) as well as in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Milan (1994).
Trained at the National Cancer Institute of Milan (1980-94) he was appointed deputy director at the Department of General Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan (1994-8).
He moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 to become Consultant
Surgical Oncologist and Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK. As of February 2018 he is Professor at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Past Editor of Surgical Oncology, Elsevier Publisher (2007-13) he is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology (2013-present). Author of 290 peer-reviewed publications and 47 book chapters, Professor Audisio edited 23 book projects and is guest reviewer to 39 international scientific Journals.
Professor Audisio is past-president of SIOG (International Society of Geriatric Oncology), BASO (British Association of Surgical Oncology) and ESSO (European Society of Surgical Oncology). He served as an advisor to the Department of Health, UK and to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer in Older Women. Professor Audisio sat on the Board of Directors of ECCO, the European CanCer Organisation. He is member of several international scientific societies including BASO, ESSO, SSO, AAA, SIOG and EUSOMA. He is past-chair of the Education & Training Committee of ESSO. Professor Audisio chairs the Surgical Oncology track at the Global Health Catalyst, Harvard Medical School.
In 2021 he joined forces with the Department of Surgery in Ravenna/University of Bologna, to boost knowledge and improve clinical practice in the multidisciplinary management of elderly cancer patients.
His clinical research focuses on Geriatric Oncology, Breast Cancer, Education/Certification in Surgical Oncology and the optimization of Surgical Oncology in L/MICs. He is Scientific Advisor to the European School of Oncology (ESO).
Since January 2024 Professor Audisio is co-chair of the INTERACT-EUROPE 100 Project (EU co-funded). He is also serving on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as the Advisory Committee of the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s Comprehensive Cancer Center of Excellence, Ghana.
