Prof. Lucia Craxì is an Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience, and Advanced Diagnostics at the University of Palermo, Italy. She is a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard University and holds a certification in Clinical Ethics Consultation from Harvard Medical School. Additionally, she has earned a certification in Bioethics and Clinical Trials from the Institute of Bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.
Her research focuses on resource allocation and health policy, with particular emphasis on liver diseases, organ transplantation, and equitable healthcare access and she has co-authored numerous publications in high-impact scientific journals.
Prof. Craxì serves as Vice-Chair of an Ethics Committee overseeing multiple hospitals in Sicily and as a member of the Independent Review Board of the NGO Emergency. She also serves as a bioethics expert in the Italian Platform for the Study of Viral Hepatitis Treatment (PITER) network, in various Working Groups of the Italian National Transplant Center and in the Permanent Bioethics Commission of the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF).
Prof. Craxì plays an active role in national and European health initiatives. She has contributed as an expert panelist in the European Society for Organ Transplantation and has worked on ethical guidelines for liver transplantation as well as communication strategies for hepatitis C screening.