ESMO President 2018-2019 announced
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) announced that the President for the 2018-2019 period will be Josep Tabernero, Head of the Medical Oncology Department at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, and Director of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) in Barcelona, Spain.
Tabernero is currently ESMO Treasurer and Chair of the ESMO Audit Committee; he has been Chair of the ESMO Fellowship & Award Committee, Scientific Chair of the ESMO 2012 Congress, member of the ESMO Press & Media Committee, member of the MOSES (Medical Oncology Status in Europe Survey) Task Force and member of the ESMO Faculty. He is also Vice-Chair of the ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.
He serves on various committees of highly-recognised, international oncology societies such as ASCO and AACR; Tabernero sits in the editorial board of numerous scientific journals and is associate or senior editor of some of the most important international publications, among others Annals of Oncology, Cancer Discovery, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology. He has contributed to almost 300 peer-reviewed, PubMed-listed scientific papers, has authored or co-authored over 400 between abstracts and book chapters mostly covering his main areas of interest which are gastrointestinal malignancies, early clinical research and drug development, with a special focus on the definition of the optimal biological dose of molecular targeted therapies by using pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic endpoints. Tabernero is also a well-appreciated international lecturer having been invited to 150 lectures in 15 years.
The ESMO President is elected by ESMO Full and Junior members, who can choose between two candidates put forward by the ESMO Nominating Committee following the recommendations from the Society’s Leadership.
The current ESMO President is Rolf A. Stahel, Head of the Centre for Lung and Thoracic Oncology and Senior Staff Physician at the Clinic of Oncology, University Hospital of Zürich and Titular Professor of Medicine at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The President-Elect for 2016-2017 is Fortunato Ciardiello, Full Professor of Medical Oncology and Director of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine and Surgery of the Second University of Naples, Italy.
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