Giovanni Lodi

Giovanni Lodi qualified in Dentistry at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 1991. In 1998 he obtained his PhD from the University of London, and the same year he started to work for the oral medicine service of the dental clinic of the university hospital of Milano (Italy). In 2002 he joined the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Università degli Studi di Milano. He has published more than 200 papers in the field of oral medicine, evidence-based dentistry, and special needs.

Current positions

• full professor with clinical duties of the Università degli Studi di Milano (2022-);

• honorary senior lecturer of the Department of Oral Medicine - Eastman Dental

Institute-UCL London (2004-);

• member of the Steering Committee of the World Workshop on Oral Medicine

(2011-);

• editor in chief of Dental Cadmos, the most widely read Italian dental journal

(2011-);

• editor of the Cochrane Oral Health Review Group (2013-);

• editor in chief of Oral Diseases, the International leading journal in oral medicine

(2017-);

• Head of the Clinical Department of Odontostomatologia 2, ASST Santi Paolo e

Carlo, Ospedale San Paolo (2021-);

• founder and president of ACAPO (https://www.acapo.info/), an Italian charity

dedicated to patients affected by oral cancer (2017-).

Bibliometric indexes

Scopus August 2022

H index: 38

citations: 4643

Google August 2022

H index: 47

citations: 8527

i10 index: 97