Phd in SENSORINEURAL PLASTICITY

email: Gianluca.scuderi@uniroma1.it
phone: 0633775035

Education and formation
• Date
1981
• Name and type of institute of education and formation University of Studies of Bari
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
• Qualification obtained
Degree in Medicine and Surgery with marks 110/110 cum laude

• Date 1985
• Name and type of institute of education and formation University of Studies of Bari
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery – Postgraduate school in Ophthalmology
• Qualification obtained
Postgraduate diploma with marks 60/60 and laude

Attendance and residence abroad
1982 Barraquer Institue of Barcellona , Prof. Joaquin Barraquer
1987 Barraquer Institue of Barcellona
1988 Mount Sinai Hospital Institute of New York, Prof. Luntz
1987 Washington University of St. Louis (Missouri), Prof Robert Drews
1988 Barraquer Institute of Bogotà, Prof. Josè Barraquer
1988 Ophthalmological Clinic University of Caracas, Prof. E Grom
1991 Bascom Palmer Institute of Miami Florida, Prof. Palmberg

Professional occupations
• Date
From 1987 to 1990
• University of Studies of Rome”Tor Vergata” - Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
• Occupation Researcher unconfirmed

• Date From October 1990 to October 2005
• University of Studies of Rome”Tor Vergata” - Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
Casilino General Hospital and Tor Vergata General Hospital
• Occupation Researcher confirmed (Ophthalmology) – Medical executive I level
• Date From October 2005 to October 2016
• Sapienza University of Rome - Faculty of Medicine and Psychology
Sant’Andrea Hospital
• Role Associate Professor (Ophthalmology) – Medical executive I Level

• Date
From 1st November 2016 till now
• Name and type of institute
“Sapienza” University of Rome - Faculty of Medicine and Psychology
Sant’Andrea Hospital
Role
Associate Professor (Ophthalmology)
Director of postgraduate school in Ophthalmology
Head of Ophthalmological Department

Personal capacities and skills

Clinical-surgical charitable activities

From 1991 he worked at the Ophthalmological Physio-pathological department of “Tor Vergata” University of Rome, where from 1993 he organized a day-hospital service for the study and care of Glaucoma which he directed until 2005.
From 1994 he was appointed in charge of the entire day-hospital ward and of the laser therapy service, of the Ophthalmological Physio pathological department, roles that he held until his transfer.
From November 1997, the Ophthalmological Physio pathological Department was integrated with the Rm B National Health Service and provided with an in-patient ward and operating theatre services at the Casilino General Hospital.
From that time he held the position of First Assistant arranging the Glaucoma centre and the overall supervision of the A & E service and the day hospital.
From November ’99 to 2001 he was in charge of the in-patient ward.
From November ’97, when the operating theatre was set up, until February 2005 he carried out approximately 1700 operations (cataract, cornea transplant, glaucoma, retina detachment) as main surgeon or tutor.
On numerous occasions and even for some long periods, in the absence of the consultant, he took over this role, carrying out it’s tasks and offices.

From 2002 to 2005 he also carried out surgical diagnostic consultancy at the Tor Vergata General Hospital where he did numerous diagnostic tests establishing a Ultrasound service and also carried out over one hundred surgical operations.
In March 2005 he was unanimously appointed Associate Professor of the second Faculty of Medicine of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome
From the time he started working at the Sant’Andrea Hospital (April 2005) he has carried out the role of 1st Assistant, Medical executive 1st level, rearranging the activities of the operating theatre and taking over the direction of the day-hospital service for the care and prevention of glaucoma and corneal pathologies establishing a scientific collaboration with the Moorfield hospital of London for the prevention and care of congenital glaucoma.
From 1th of November 2016 he is Head of Ophthalmology unit at Sant Andrea Hospital.
During his clinical activity he carried out approximately 5000 laser treatments for various ocular pathologies and over 7000 ophthalmological surgical operations for various pathologies.

Scientific publications
Author of approximately 200 publications on Italian and foreign journals, chapters of books, and monographies, he has a h-index of 13 .
He is Member of the Editorial Board of the International Scientific Journals: Annals Of Ophthalmology, Current Updates in Ophthalmology and Journal of Ophthalmology
Referee of the international journals: Graefe's Archive for clinical and experimental opthalmology , PlosOne, IOVS, Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Journal of Ophthalmology,

Relational capacities and skills Work in a hospital and research team with managerial responsibility.

Organizational capacities and skills Capacity to manage Medical and surgical Department
Organization of research groups and scientific teams
He participated in multi-centric studies as Principal Investigator
He participated as person in charge of research unit in 2 Ministerial PRIN (research projects of national interest) .
He has organized over 20 national congresses in the ophthalmological field.

Technical capacities and skills
Excellent surgical capacity with over 7000 operations in all ophthalmological pathologies.

Didactic capacities and skills
He carried out an intense didactic activity at Bari, Rome “Tor Vergata” and Rome “Sapienza” Universities with numerous theoretical-practical lessons and seminars for the students and scholars of the Postgraduate Schools.
He has assisted many graduate and postgraduate students in preparing their theses, many of which were experimental and on original subjects of clinical research.
He was teacher of the S.D.F.S: of orthoptics – assistants in Ophthalmology of the University of Tor Vergata from its establishment in 1990 until 1992 with the teaching of Anatomy of the Visual system and of C.N.S . After its subsequent transformation into a University Diploma he was lecturer of this subject: Anatomy and physiology of the visual system from 1993 to 1998.
Again in the area of University Diploma for orthoptics and assistants in ophthalmology in the years 1998/99 and1999/2000 the faculty conferred him with the task of the teaching courses of “Illnesses of the Visual System” and of “General Pathology”. From its transformation into a short degree course he became lecturer of the Integrated Course of Illnesses of the Visual System until 2005.
He was also lecturer in the University Diploma of Nursing Sciences where, from 1997 to 2005, he also held the course of “Illnesses of the Visual System”.
Since being called to the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the Sapienza University of Rome in 2005 up to the present day he is in charge of teaching of Illnesses of the Visual System in the graduate course
Since 2005 he is in charge of the teaching courses at the Postgraduate School of Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery and Paediatrics.
From November 2016 he is Director Of Postgraduate School of Ophthalmology at Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the Sapienza University
He has assiduously participated, as invited speaker, in numerous national and international congress.
He is member of the principal ophthalmological society : SOI, SOM, EGS, AICER, ECRS, AAO, AISG, SIGLA, SINut, ARVO.

Other capacities and skills
Knowledge of the complete Microsoft Office package, especially of the Word, Excel, Power Point applications

Motherlanguage Italian
Other languages
• English Intermediate

• Spanish Intermediate