Renal cancer
Umberto Capitanio
Email: capitanio.umberto@hsr.it
Location: Lotto Q, Floor 8, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Group Leader, Renal Cancer
Umberto Capitanio is Executive Member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Kidney Cancer Guidelines, Executive Member of the EAU Video Congress Committee, former Editor-in-chief of the UROONCO Kidney cancer EAU Educational Platform and former Chairman of the EAU Young Academic Urologist Kidney Cancer Working Party (EAU YAU). He has been a research fellow at the Cancer prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit of the University of Montreal, Canada. He published more than 450 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He received many academic prizes, including the John Blandy Award in 2009 and the Italian Matula Award in 2020.
Over the past 10 years, the scientific activities of Umberto Capitanio were dedicated to the field of kidney cancer, in particular in the settings of Small Renal Masses (SMR), locally advanced and metastatic kidney cancer, becoming an acknowledged international opinion leader in the field. He has leadership roles in important international research consortia in the field of staging and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma, the role of lymph node dissection and lymph node invasion in patients with kidney cancer, the impact of minimally invasive surgery in the field of kidney cancer, the optimization of the functional outcomes of patients with kidney cancer, the multidisciplinary approach to the patient with renal cancer and the analyses of treatment outcomes of renal cancer patients. He works as the Principal Investigator in several translational studies – which received dedicated grants – to test and develop novel integrated diagnostic approaches to patients with renal masses.
2023 – present Board Certification in Andrology (Società Italiana di Andrologia - SIA)
2014 – present Fellow in robotic surgery (Pilot II study), OLV Robotic Surgery Institute, Aalst and Melle, Belgium (Supervisor: Prof. A. Mottrie)
2012 – present Fellow of the European Board of Urology (F.E.B.U.)
11/2007 – 12/2008 Research fellowishp, Cancer prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit of the University of Montreal (CHUM), Canada (Supervisor: Prof. P.I. Karakiewicz)
2007 – 2012 Residency in Urology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
2000 - 2006 Medical School, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
2024 – present Executive Member, EAU Scientific Research Group of the Robotic Urology Section (ERUS)
2020 – present Executive Member, Video Congress Committee EAU
2020 – present Executive Member, EAU Kidney Cancer Guidelines Panel
2020 – present Group Leader, Kidney Cancer research IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2018 – 2022 Editor-in-chief, UROONCO Kidney cancer Educational Platform EAU
2017 – 2021 Chairman, European Association Urology Young Academic Urologist Kidney Cancer Working Party (EAU YAU)
2012 – present Staff urologist, Department of Urology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2020 Italian Matula Award, SIU (granted to the best young italian urological academician)
2020 European Urology Best Reviewer
2014 American Urological Association - Plenary Session: best plenary presentation at AUA annual meeting, Orlando (FL), USA
2013 The Golden Italian abstract, American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, USA, SIU/AUA Abstract award
2009 John Blandy Award for the best collection of papers published in British Journal of Urology International
2008 Resident’s Corner Award for the Best Scientific Paper published in European Urology