Biography

Valeria Santini is Associate Professor of Hematology at the University of Florence, Italy since 2000. She received her medical degree from the University of Florence and became a Consultant in Haematology. She worked as fellow of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) at Dr Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center/Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She then undertook training in the USA at the Leukemia Unit, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston.
Professor Santini runs the clinical MDS programme at the Haematology Unit at the AOU Careggi, Medical School, University of Florence. Her interests are in translational research in MDS and AML.
Professor Santini has responsibility as member of the Faculty of the University of Florence -School of Medicine and she holds courses on Clinical Hematology for Medical students and students of Nurse graduate school, as well as courses of Laboratory and Experimental Hematology for Technicians. She has been teaching to medical students since 1994 and has been tutor of several PhD students. Her involvement in educational activities, included qualification assessment, implies theoretical lessons for more than 90 hours/year and practical education of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as fellows. At present she is involved in the development of a learning e-platform for medical students of the University of Florence .
Professor Santini is a member of the European Society of Hematology (EHA) since more than 15 years.
Since 2015 she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European School of Hematology (ESH).
She has been an invited speaker at numerous international meetings including the European Hematology Association, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO 2007: educational session on MDS), American Society of Hematology (ASH 2012: educational session on MDS) and National Haematology societies of several countries (Spain, France, Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Thailand, Lebanon, Slovenia).
She has served for two terms on the executive board of the Italian Society of Haematology (SIE) and she has been Vice-president of the Italian Society of Experimental Haematology (SIES ). She also a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and she is member of the medical advisory board of the Aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndromes International Foundation (AA & MDS IF), vice-president of the Fondazione Italiana per lo studio delle sindromi mielodisplastiche (FISM) and Co-Chair of the GIMEMA MDS working party. She is also an author of more than 140 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals.