Doctor Sara Ricciardi graduated with honors in December 2019 in thoracic surgery from the University of Pisa. After completing her classical high school diploma at the Ennio Quirino Visconti high school in Rome in July 2006, she moved to Pisa to continue her studies.
During her specialization, she conducted numerous research projects and published articles in important international journals. Her research activity focuses on thoracic neoplasms, with particular attention to lung cancer, lung metastases, and minimally invasive surgical approaches. She has participated in numerous conferences as a speaker and as a moderator/panelist.
Thanks to her study on the prognostic impact of lymph node status in lung cancer, she was awarded the Young Investigator Award during the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in 2016 in Vienna and in 2017 in Yokohama. She trained at one of the most important robotic surgery centers and spent three months at Toronto General Hospital to improve her skills in lung transplantation and general thoracic surgery.
He is an active member of international societies such as the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the European Association for Cardio Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), and the Italian societies of thoracic surgery and thoracic endoscopy (SICT, SIET). He is a member of the editorial board of AMJ (AME Medical Journal) and a reviewer for the Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD). He is a member of the EACTS-ESTS-ATEP task force whose aim is to establish surgical guidelines for the treatment of sub-solid lung nodules (GGO). In October 2019, he was awarded an annual scholarship by the AIC-NET Association for studies on lung neoplasms and a research award for his project on Sentinel Lymph Node in lung cancer.
