Nicola Fazio MD, PhD

Nicola Fazio graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. In 1993, he specialised in internal medicine and in 2003, in oncology. In 2013, he gained a PhD in Digestive Oncology. He is currently Director of the Division of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology and Neuroendocrine Tumors and Director of the Programme in Digestive and Neuroendocrine Tumors at the European Institute of Oncology, where he has been working since 1995. Since 2015, he is Head of the IEO ENETS Center of Excellence for GEP NETs. He served as ESMO Faculty Coordinator for Neuroendocrine, Endocrine and CUP from 2016 - 2019.

He was Chair of the ESMO NEN Preceptorship from 2017 - 2018 and was invited to be Chair again in 2019. He was also asked to be chair of the ESMO NEN Advanced Course in 2019. Since 2013, he is Coordinator of the Italian (AIOM/ITANET) neuroendocrine neoplasms guidelines. He has been ENETS Advisory Board Chairman from 2018 - 2020 and is a member of the ENETS Executive Committee since 2020.