Year of birth: 1944

BIOGRAPHY

Lodovico Balducci is Professor of medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. He is also Director of the Oncology Programme at the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa. Balducci is one of the pioneers in geriatric oncology research. He obtained his medical degree at Università Cattolica in Rome, and after a period at the Misericordia General Hospital in Manitoba (Canada), he specialised in Haematology and Oncology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Balducci’s research also covers the diagnosis and treatment of elderly people with cancer.

He is active in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), he is a fellow of the American Medical Association and a member of the American Federation for Medical Research, the American Society for Breast Disease, and the International Society for Experimental Haematology. Balducci is a member of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG); he is a member of the group’s Breast Cancer Committee and currently chairs the Geriatrics Subcommittee. He serves on the Editorial Board of the following journals: Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Cancer Control, and _Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. _

He is a reviewer for, amongst others, the Annals of Internal Medicine and the American Journal of Hematology. He was senior editor of General Geriatric Oncology, published by Harwood Academic Publishers in 1998.