Zacharenia (Zenia) Saridaki – Zoras, MD, PhD, is the President of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (HeSMO). Scientific Director of the Oncology Department «Asklepios», currently working as a Medical Oncologists in “Asklepios” and in the “Asklepieion Crete” private clinic in Heraklion Crete. She is also one of the founders of the scientific group “Women 4 Oncology – Hellas”. She acquired her Medical Degree and her PhD from the University of Crete, Medical School and she received her Medical Oncology Specialty Certification in 2007. She has was worked as an academic visitor at Oxford University, in the Medical Oncology Unit of the Churchill and John Radcliffe Hospitals and in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology in the Radcliffe Infirmary and as a full time postdoctoral scientific researcher in the Center for Human Genetics O&N1 in the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and in the Department of Digestive Oncology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium. She is an author and co-author in more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and in 3 scientific medical books. She is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (since 2008) and of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) (since 2010). She served as the Deputy Managing Editor of the official scientific journal of HeSMO, Forum of Clinical Oncology (FCO), from 2014 until the end of 2017, she has been an invited speaker in more than 180 and an invited chair in more than 80 national and international congresses and has been the organizer and co-organizer (as a member of the Organizing and/or Scientific Committee, of which in 3 Chair of the Scientific Committee) in more than 60 national and international congresses.