Virgilio Sacchini, MD is Attending Surgeon, in the Breast Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and  Professor of Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. He was vice-director of the  Breast Department at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan - Italy until September 2000.
Dr. Sacchini received his medical degree from the University of Milan Medical School and trained in general surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Milan.
In the last 15 years Dr. Sacchini has being involved as co-investigator in several clinical trials in breast cancer. He was Clinical co-ordinator of the Italian Breast Cancer Chemoprevention Study of Tamoxifen. He is participating as clinical investigator in some EORTC (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) breast cancer trials. Since 1989 he has been Scientific Consultant to the European School of Oncology. It is in charge of some clinical trials on breast cancer at MSKCC.
Dr. Sacchini has published more than 160 research papers and  chapter books.