Luigi Grassi MD is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Department of Medical Sciences of Communication and Behaviour, University of Ferrara, Italy; and Chief of the Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Department of Neurosciences and Rehabilitation and Department of Mental Heath, S. Anna University Hospital and Local Health Agency in Ferrara, Italy. His research and teaching are mainly in clinical psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry and psycho- oncology. Dr Grassi is the author of several scientific papers and books. He is President of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) and the Italian Society of Psycho-Oncology (SIPO) and Chair of the Section on Psycho-Oncology of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). .
