Full Professor, MED/05 Clinical pathology
Department of Experimental Medicine
Main duties and responsibilities
2022-present: Pro-Rector of Sapienza University of Rome
2022-present: Director of the Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome
2022: Member of the steering and coordination committee relating to the PNRR fund
Earthquake area n.12 of 30 December 2021
2021-present: Member of the Research and Technological Innovation Commission in
Dentistry of the Order of Medicine Rome
2021-present: Member of the Scientific Committee for the Management of the ECM training offer of Sapienza University of Rome
2021-present: Appointed Sapienza Coordinator for the AAHCI international inter-university network
2019-present: CEO of the Achille Lattuca Foundation
2019-2022: Interim Director of the UOC of Immunohaematology and Transfusion Medicine
2019-present: Member of the Board of Directors of Sapienza University of Rome
2017-present: President of the Medicine and Surgery Degree Course - A
2017: Appointment as member of the technical table for newborn screenings in the Lazio region
2016-present: President of the Nursing Degree Course - X
2003-2015: President of the Nursing Degree Course - C
2011-present: Coordinator of Health Professions Degree Courses
2012-present: Director of the UOC Clinical Pathology of the Policlinico Umberto I hospital
2012-present: Head of the Neonatal Screening Laboratory - Lazio region
2011-present: Coordinator for Health Professions - I Class Degree Courses
2010-2017: Member of the Infosapienza committee
2006-2011: Representative of Sapienza on the Board of Directors of the Sabina Universitas consortium company
Education and training
1987: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome with the vote 110/110 with honors
1991-1993: Visiting Scientist at Yale University, USA
1993: PhD in Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome
Main professional skills
Author of over 140 scientific publications in international journals with index.
Expertise in laboratory medicine and advanced laboratory diagnostics.
The direction of the UOC of clinical pathology of the Policlinico Umberto I and of the regional laboratory for neonatal screening of Lazio involves the management of structures that operate 7/7 in a 24-hour regime, to which approximately 120 personnel and the corresponding economic resources are assigned to guarantee the analytical flow.
The experience gained in the board of directors of Sapienza has led to a direct involvement in the planning and evaluation of the effectiveness of the strategic actions of the largest European university.
Relational skills and competences
The presidency of the Degree Courses reported in a synthetic way involves not only the six-monthly planning of the training activities but the need to evaluate the needs of the students and teachers of the course, constantly adapting the quality of the training to the innovation that derives from the innovation of the tools teaching and training in general.
In the research field, the articulation of care activities in different contexts of laboratory medicine involves the coordination of university research groups, with specific interests in the field of advanced diagnostics for genetic-metabolic diseases, as well as in the identification of new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.
Organizational skills
Management of the clinical pathology UOC to which the three main analysis laboratories of the Policlinico Umberto I hospital report activities spread over 24 hours / 7 days a week, coordinating a work group of about 120 units including graduate personnel, technical area, administrative area, as well as management of the relative budget assigned to the UOC.
Management of the single regional laboratory for newborn screening for the Lazio and the Molise region, along with the coordination of the working group of about 30 personnel and coordination with all the regional birth centers and regional clinical centers that take care of newborns.
Director of the blood sampling center - Policlinico Umberto I hospital, with the coordination of about 10 units of graduate, nursing and auxiliary personnel.
Director of the Master in Wound Care from 2008 to 2016.
Patents
Co-inventor of the Italian, European, US patent: KGF/FGF7 for use in the treatment of vaginal atrophy induced by chemotherapy.