Pilar Garrido López

Pilar Garrido, MD, PhD, is a medical oncologist and head of the Medical Oncology Department at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, Spain. She has dedicated her professional life to patient care, teaching, and research in the field of thoracic tumors. Her main areas of interest are clinical and translational studies in lung cancer. She is involved in the Spanish Biomedical Network Cancer Research Center (CIBERONC) and the Health Research Institute Ramon y Cajal (IRYCIS) as PI of the Translational Research Thoracic Tumour Group, building a multidisciplinary programme dedicated to the Identification of predictive biomarkers in lung cancer patients, the impact of the microbiota, the clinical utility of liquid biopsy, and radiomics. She is also highly involved in gender perspectives from two different angles: gender medicine in thoracic tumors and the gender gap in leadership positions in oncology. Committed to training and education, she is a Professor of Medicine at Alcalá University in Madrid, Spain. She is an Associate Editor of the Annals of Oncology and a member of the ESMO Faculty for lung and other thoracic tumors. For the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) she serves as a Member of the Academy, the Educational Committee, and the Women In Thoracic Oncology group. Highly involved with patient associations, she is the Chief Medical Officer of the AECC (Spanish Against Cancer Research Foundation) where she also sits on the Board. She is also a Scientific Committee member of the AeCAP (Spanish Association of Lung Cancer Patients).