Prof. Massimo Di Maio, MD Department of Oncology, University of Turin Head, Medical Oncology, Mauriziano Hospital, Turin September 2020: Massimo Di Maio is associate professor of Medical Oncology at Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Italy, since 2014, and director of Medical Oncology at Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, since 2016. In 1999, he obtained degree cum laude in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Napoli “Federico II”, Italy. In 2003, he graduated from the Specialty School in Oncology at the same University. From 2000 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2014 he worked at the Clinical Trials Unit of the National Cancer Institute “G.Pascale” Foundation, in Naples, Italy, where he was involved in the planning, conducting and analysis of clinical trials. His main areas of interest are: • methodology of clinical trials in oncology • conduction of meta-analyses based on individual patients’ data • patient-reported outcomes in clinical research and in clinical practice. Prof Di Maio has been invited as speaker at many national and international meetings and has authored nearly 300 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (H-Index August 2020: 41 according to Scopus, 38 according to Web of Science). Prof. Di Maio is an active member of the Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica (Italian Society of Medical Oncology, AIOM) and European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). Since October 2019, he has been elected AIOM National Secretary.