Giovanni Landoni (la Canna) MD

Prof Giovanni Landoni, MD, earned his degrees in Milan University and is currently Associate Professor at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, where he works as head of research in the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele. In the period 2006-2018, he participated in the ideation, writing, and implementation of 14 grants that got funding from national and international donors and attracted 10 further trials supported by grants from abroad. He served as a reviewer for over 50 journals (NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Circulation, and Intensive Care Medicine among others) and for foreign grant agencies and he is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals. He was a member of the Technical Scientific Committee (CTS) of AIFA, the Italian Food and Drug Administration (2009-2012) He was (2012-2017) the Italian member of the Representative Council of EACTA (European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists).

His strong clinical and research interests in intensive care and anesthesia has resulted in more than 500 scientific publications (370 in indexed journals, cited >6,000 times, HI=41 HI-5-years 20) including randomized trials on NEJM, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, Circulation, and Intensive Care Medicine, and over 100 invitations in international congresses. He participated in 45 randomized controlled trials. Prof Landoni was Chief Investigator in successfully completed multicenter randomized clinical trials that randomized > 5,000 critically ill or perioperative patients over the last 5 years.