Eleonora Pinto is a psychologist, psychotherapist and psycho-oncologist certified by the Italian Society of Psycho-Oncology (S.I.P.O.) and researcher at Veneto Institute of Oncology. Since 2010, she has been the Subject Expert in the Health Psychology and Clinical Psychology field at the University of Padua, where she collaborates in didactic activity. As a health professional, she applies psycho-oncological competences to surgical patients’ needs during hospital stay and to their caregivers. As a researcher at the Unit of Surgical Oncology of the Esophagus and Digestive Tract of Veneto Institute of Oncology, she applies the M.A.D.I.T. methodology to research needs in the oncological field and in prehabilitation and posthabilitation projects. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5404-5958