Anita Villani is a Staff Oncologist at The Hospital for Sick Children and an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She has a clinical and research interest in cancer genetics and predisposition, and in the translational implementation of genomic sequencing technologies into clinical oncology care. Anita is the Co-Director of the SickKids Precision Oncology Research Program (“KiCS”) and an active member of the Canadian national precision medicine program, PROFYLE. She is co-Principle Investigator of the Consortium for Childhood Cancer Predisposition (C3P) and of a multicentre, longitudinal registry study, the Childhood Cancer Predisposition Study (CCPS).  She is co-chair of the Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Working Group within the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

Anita received her medical degree at the University of Ottawa. She completed both her Paediatric residency training and Haematology/Oncology fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She obtained her Master of Science degree in Genetics and Genome Biology through the Clinician Investigator Program and Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.

Dr Villani will present her seminar entitled "Risk of Therapy-Related Subsequent Cancers in Individuals with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: An Example of Collaboration to Advance Care and Research for Childhood Cancer Predispositions"