Alberto Bossi MD

Dr. Alberto Bossi is currently Head of the Urology and Prostate Brachytherapy Unit at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Institute in Villejuif, France. His professional career started in Italy where he was born: he graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1988, specializing in Radiotherapy and Diagnostic Radiology in 1992 at the University of Pavia. After a Clinical Fellowship at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, he worked in Como and Milan. In 2001, he was appointed Adjunct Clinical Head at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital in Leuven, Belgium, where he worked until 2006 before moving to IGR. Dr. Bossi is a member of several scientific Societies, including ESTRO, ASTRO, and EAU. He has served as Coordinator of the Radiotherapy Genito-Urinary Working Group of the EORTC between 2004 and 2006.

He is currently the Course Director of the Multidisciplinary ESTRO-EAU-ESMO Teaching Course on Prostate Cancer together with dr Alberto Briganti and a teacher at both the ESO (European School of Oncology) and EAU (European Association of Urology) Prostate Courses. He is the Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigator of two major European Phase III trials on Prostate Cancer (involving Brachytherapy for Intermediate-Risk patients and the metastatic setting) and has published over 45 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters on prostate cancer management. Dr. Bossi has been appointed to the Editorial Board at Large of European Urology and he is a reviewer for several journals including the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, European Urology, Radiotherapy and Oncology, the British Journal of Urology International, Annals of Oncology and the Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy.