Giulia Villa
Giulia Villa has worked as a nurse manager in the Urology Department at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy since 2017 and her responsibilities include nurse staffing, nursing care and research in nursing urology. She received her PhD in 2019 and since 2008 she has also worked as a lecturer teaching Research Methodology and Evidence Based Practice at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan.
Giulia has been involved in developing several research projects in urology and has published a number of articles on self-care and the quality of life of ostomy patients, sex-related difference in ostomy patients, nutrition in urinary stones and in bladder cancer patients, urinary tract infection.
Giulia is an active board member of the European Association of Urological Nurses (EAUN), European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) and the European Council of Enterostomal Therapist (ECET), Italian Association of Urological Nurses (AIURO) and is the Italian delegate for the World Council of Enterostomal Therapist (WCET).
Her research and quality improvement interests include self-care, quality of life, ostomy, bladder and prostate cancer, urinary diversion, urinary tract infection, nutrition, fast track surgery, robotic surgery.