Dr. Giovanni E. Cacciamani

Dr. Giovanni E. Cacciamani is an Italian urological surgeon and physician-scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Urology and Radiology at the Department of Urology of the University of Southern California and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Center for Surgical and Clinical Application in Urology and Vice-chair of the Research Council at the Department of Urology of USC.

Cacciamani earned his Medical Degree (M.D.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Medicine and Surgery in 2013 from the University of Verona.  He completed a Urology residency in 2018 at “Confortini” Hospital, the University of Verona. In 2018 he completed a Minimally Invasive Surgery Research fellowship at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Cacciamani's primary areas of interest are Urological Oncological diseases (Prostate Cancer, Renal Cancer, and Bladder Cancer), Patient Safety, and Artificial Intelligence applications in healthcare, with a particular interest in the use of machine learning for the identification of radiomics features to predict the pathology from the imaging and in the detection of predictors of recurrence of urological malignancies. 

Dr. Cacciamani has published 230 publications in international peer-reviewed journals of reference in the Urologic-oncological scientific field, 8 Prospero Protocols (University of York), 15 book chapters, and the author of more than 150 abstracts in national and international meetings. 

In 2021 Dr. Cacciamani received the “Matula Award 2021” for the best Italian urologist under 40 and was awarded the “Citizen of the Year 2021” in Verona for the category “healthcare.”

Dr. Cacciamani is a member of eleven professional societies in the urological field. He is the Chairman of the Young Academic Urology (YAU) Working party of the European Association of Urology in Uro-Technology (2021-present) and a Board member of the European Association of Urology Research Foundation. In July 2020, he obtained the 10-year National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professorship (clinical and research) in Urology by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.