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Carlo La Vecchia
Head, Department of Epidemiology
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Carlo La Vecchia received his medical degree from the University of Milan and
a master of science degree in clinical epidemiology from Oxford University. He is recognized
worldwide as a leading authority in cancer etiology and epidemiology. Presently, he is Chief of
Epidemiology at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Italy and on the faculty of Medicine at the
University of Milan. Dr. La Vecchia serves as an editor for numerous clinical and epidemiologic
journals. He is among the most renowned and productive epidemiologists in the field with over 1,250
peer-reviewed papers in the literature and is among the most highly cited medical researchers in
the world, according to ISIHighlyCited.comsm, the developer and publisher of the Science Citation
Index. Dr. La Vecchia is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center and the
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
and of Epidemiology at the University of Lausanne, CH.
Dr. La Vecchia is a temporary advisor at the International Agency for Research on Cancer
IARC/WHO and at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and a registered journalist in Milan. He
was Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health between 1996 and
2001.
Dr. La Vecchia’s main fields of interest include cancer epidemiology and the risk related to
diet, tobacco, oral contraceptive use and occupational or environmental exposure to toxic
substances; and analysis of temporal trends and geographical distribution of mortality from cancer,
cardiovascular diseases, perinatal and other selected conditions.
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