Pierluigi Novellis

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Specialty:

Pulmonology - Lung diseases Lung and thoracic cancer Oncology

Profession:

Thoracic surgeon

Location:

Department of Thoracic Surgery @ Ospedale San Raffaele

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Biography

Dr. Pierluigi Novellis is a thoracic surgeon at the Thoracic Surgery Unit of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, led by Professor Giulia Veronesi.

After graduating with honors from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome in 2008, he received a specialization in thoracic surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – Policlinico A. Gemelli of Rome in 2014. During his studies, the doctor visited several international departments as an attending physician: Department of Thoracic Surgery University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Baptist Health South Florida South Miami Hospital, USA; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. Finally, he attended a course on epidemiology and advanced statistics for clinical research organized by Università Hunimed.

Clinically, Dr. Novellis currently holds the position of assistant in the department of thoracic surgery, where he has been working vertically since 2008. Over the years, his main interests have become minimally invasive robotic lung cancer treatment, postoperative quality of life assessment, and early diagnosis.

Research activity reflects clinical interest. Following in the footsteps of his teacher, Prof. Giulia Veronesi, his main interest was in the early diagnosis of lung cancer through screening (insert hyperlink) and the use of a robot in minimally invasive robotic surgery. The ideal of the study is to detect lung tumors at a very early stage, which can be cured radically with operations that only minimally change the patient's quality of life. He is also actively involved in translational research protocols, in interdisciplinary research both in the institutional field and in collaboration with other centers.

He is a member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the Italian Society of Thoracic Surgery (SICT), the Society of Thoracic Endoscopy (SIET), was a member of the Association of Clinical Robotic Surgery (CRSA) and the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS).

He is the author and co-author of more than 60 publications in national and international scientific journals and 3 book chapters. His Hirsch Index is 11. He constantly participates in national and international industry conferences as a speaker. Works as a tutor for students in the process of professional development.

Publications

Latest publications

Quality of Life, Postoperative Pain, and Lymph Node Dissection in a Robotic Approach Compared to VATS and OPEN for Early Stage Lung Cancer

J Clin Med. 2021 Apr 14;10(8):1687. doi: 10.3390/jcm10081687.

Novellis P, Maisonneuve P, Dieci E, Voulaz E, Bottoni E, Di Stefano S, Solinas M, Testori A, Cariboni U, Alloisio M, Veronesi G.

Distinguishing multiple lung primaries from intra-pulmonary metastases and treatment implications

Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2020 Nov;20(11):985-995. doi: 10.1080/14737140.2020.1823223.

Voulaz E, Novellis P, Rossetti F, Solinas M, Rossi S, Alloisio M, Pelosi G, Veronesi G.

Endoscopic Lipofilling for the Treatment of Bronchopleural Fistulas After Anatomic Lung Resection

Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 Feb;111(2):e143- e145. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.05.123.

Bottoni E, Banzatti BP, Novellis P, Ferraroli GM, Alloisio M.

Recommendations for Implementing Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography in Europe.

Cancers (Basel). 2020 Jun 24;12(6):1672. doi: 10.3390/cancers12061672.

Veronesi G, Baldwin DR, Henschke CI, Ghislandi S, Iavicoli S, Oudkerk M, De Koning HJ, Shemesh J, Field JK, Zulueta JJ, Horgan D, Fiestas Navarrete L, Valentino Infante M, Novellis P, Murray RL, Peled N, Rampinelli C, Rocco G, Rzyman W, Scagliotti GV, Tammemagi MC, Bertolaccini L, Triphuridet N, Yip R, Rossi A, Senan S, Ferrante G, Brain K, van der Aalst C, Bonomo L, Consonni D, Van Meerbeeck JP,

Ghislandi S. Favorable incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for lung cancer screening in Italy

Lung Cancer. 2020 May;143:73-79. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2020.03.015.

Veronesi G, Navone N, Novellis P, Dieci E, Toschi L, Velutti L, Solinas M, Vanni E, Alloisio M,

IRF4 instructs effector Treg differentiation and immune suppression in human cancer

J Clin Invest. 2020 Jun 1;130(6):3137-3150. doi: 10.1172/JCI130426.

Alvisi G, Brummelman J, Puccio S, Mazza EM, Tomada EP, Losurdo A, Zanon V, Peano C, Colombo FS, Scarpa A, Alloisio M, Vasanthakumar A, Roychoudhuri R, Kallikourdis M, Pagani M, Lopci E, Novellis P, Blume J, Kallies A, Veronesi G, Lugli E.

Survival results in biphasic malignant pleural mesothelioma patients: A multicentric analysis

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Sep 9. pii: S0022-5223(19)31751-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.08.027

LOCOCO F, TORRICELLI F, LANG-LAZDUNSKI L, VERONESI G, RENA O, PACI M, CASADIO C, PIANA S, NOVELLIS P, DI STEFANO TS, CIARROCCHI A, BILLÈ A.

In-vivo imaging of methionine metabolism in patients with suspected malignant pleural mesothelioma

Nucl Med Commun. 2019 Nov;40(11):1179-1186. doi: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000001078.

LOPCI E, NOVELLIS P, TESTORI A, RAHAL D, VOULAZ E, BOTTONI E, FERRAROLI GM, CREPALDI A, CERESOLI GL, PERRINO M, CASTELLO A, ALLOISIO M, VERONESI G, ZUCALI PA.

Independent expression of circulating and tissue levels of PD-L1: correlation of clusters with tumor metabolism and outcome in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2019 Sep;68(9):1537-1545. doi: 10.1007/s00262-019-02387-9.

GRIZZI F, CASTELLO A, QEHAJAJ D, TOSCHI L, ROSSI S, PISTILLO D, PALEARI V, VERONESI G, NOVELLIS P, MONTERISI S, MINERI R, RAHAL D, LOPCI E.

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