Carmelo Rizzari
Continental President Elect-Europe (starts role in January 2022)
Carmelo Rizzari is Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Unit at the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Milano-Bicocca, MBBM Foundation, ASST Monza, Italy. Prof. Rizzari’s main research interests fall within the field of paediatric leukaemias and cancer chemotherapy. He has participated in the development of a number of chemotherapy protocols for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He is currently Chair of the ALL Scientific Committee within the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (AIEOP) and is member of the steering committee of the ongoing international protocol, AIEOP-BFM ALL 2017, for first-line treatment of childhood ALL. He is also international co-Chair of the AIEOP-BFM ALL working group on asparaginase studies and co-Chair of the Clinical Trials Council for the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-E). Since 2016 Prof. Rizzari is the representative of the International BFM Study Group (I-BFM-SG) within the coordinating group of the European Network of Paediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency (Enpr-EMA), which aims to optimise and improve the use of drugs in childhood. In January 2020 Dr Rizzari has become President Elect of European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-E) and will become President starting from January 1st, 2022.