Evis Sala
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Evis Sala | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2026 | |
| Minister of Health and Social Welfare | |
| Assumed office 19 September 2025 | |
| President | Bajram Begaj |
| Prime Minister | Edi Rama |
| Preceded by | Albana Koçiu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (affiliation) |
| Profession | Politician, academic, medical researcher |
Evis Sala (born 5 July 1968) is an Albanian radiologist, academic, and public official. She has served as the Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Albania since September 2025. She is also a Professor of Radiology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy.[1][2][3]
Sala obtained her medical degree (MD) from the University of Tirana in 1991. She later completed an MPhil and a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge in 2020, and subsequently completed postgraduate training in radiology.[4]
Academic and professional career
From 2012 to 2018, Sala served as Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and as Chief of the Body Imaging Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
She later held the position of Professor of Oncological Imaging at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where she co-led the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Advanced Cancer Imaging programme and the Integrated Cancer Medicine programme.[5][6]
Until September 2025, she served as Director of the Radiology Training Program at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and as Chair of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCC in Rome, Italy.[7][8]
Political career
Research and publications
Sala’s research focuses on radiogenomics and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging, including quantitative imaging methods for tumour detection, evaluation of tumour heterogeneity, and prediction of clinical outcomes.[14]
She has authored more than 340 scientific publications in international journals. She is also a co-founder of Lucida Medical, a company developing AI-assisted software tools for cancer detection using MRI.[15][16]
