Prof. Dr. Renato Cannizzaro is an Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Trieste and Director of the Oncological Gastroenterology Department at Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (CRO) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy at the University of Padua. Responsible for numerous current and finalized research projects of the Italian Ministry of Health, his main research activities focus on the prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of precancerous and primary and secondary neoplasms of the digestive system, hereditary genetic syndromes of digestive tract cancers, and diagnostic and therapeutic digestive endoscopy. He is a member of the Meeting of Members of the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) and the Advisory Council of the European Society of Digestive Oncology (ESDO). Past President of the Italian Federation of Societies of Diseases of the Digestive System (FISMAD), he is now Head of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Working Group at CRO. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Regional Network for Rare Diseases in Friuli Venezia Giulia and of the Board of the Pordenone Medical Association.