Ottavia De Simoni is a surgeon at the Veneto Institute of Oncology in Castelfranco Veneto (Italy) (2022 to the present). Before that, she worked as a general surgery resident at the Università degli Studi di Padova from 2016 to 2021. Her research and clinical interests are focused on oncological surgery. In particular, she is interested in pancreatic surgery and minimally invasive colorectal surgery.