Patrick Maisonneuve - Biography#

Patrick Maisonneuve obtained a degree in Engineering at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon (France) in 1985, and successively specialized in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

From 1986 until 1991, he worked at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, in the Divisions of Descriptive and then Analytical Epidemiology where he was involved in protocol development, in the management and analysis of many large-scale multi-centric case-control studies aimed to study the aetiology of cancer at various sites including breast, colon and rectum, prostate, brain, gallbladder and pancreas.

Since 1991, he has worked in Milan, Italy at the European Institute of Oncology, a comprehensive cancer center where he became Deputy Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 1994 and is currently Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit.

He developed multiple expertises in the field of epidemiology and clinical research, from the assessment of disease’s risk factors, identification of individuals at high risk of disease, primary and secondary prevention, prognosis and long-term outcome of cancer. He has also been involved in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of institutional and multicentric observational studies and clinical trials, and of cancer screening programmes. He also conducted several international collaborative studies to evaluate the risk of cancer in patients with various medical conditions such as chronic and hereditary pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, liver cirrhosis, thyrotoxicosis treated with radioactive iodine and in patients receiving dialysis for end stage renal disease.

He is the author or coauthor of numerous book chapters and of more than 560 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (Scopus H-index 112, Google scholar H-index 134).