Paolo Boffetta

Dr. Boffetta graduated in Medicine from the University of Turin and obtained a Master in Public Health from Columbia University. He worked at the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization, the German Cancer Research Center, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He is professor at Stony Brook University, NY, and at the University of Bologna, and adjunct professor at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, and Catholic University in Rome. His main fields of research are epidemiology and disease prevention, with emphasis on modifiable risk factors, including occupational and environmental exposure and personal behaviors, gene-environment interactions, molecular epidemiology and evidence integration. He authored over 1,400 scientific publications and edited 15 books; his h-index is 129 (WoS) and 183 (Google Scholar). He ranks 5th among Top Italian Scientists in Clinical Sciences and has been included since 2015 in the Reuter Thomson List of World's Most Highly Cited Researchers.