Associate Medical Director, Infectious Diseases - Abbott Diagnostics
Biography
Born in Roma (Italy), February 10th,1956. Medical degree "cum laude" July 1980. Specialty in Gastrointestinal Diseases, July 1984. PhD in Infectious Diseases, July 1988. Associate Director Medical & Scientific Affairs, at Abbott Diagnostics with global responsibility for Infectious Diseases. Member of Italian and European Associations for the Study of the Liver (AISF, EASL); European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID); Italian Society of Virology (ISV/SIV); Italian Blood Transfusion Society (SIMTI); European Society of Cardiology (ESC); American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).
Main research activities in Infectious Diseases: development and validation of an off-label procedure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody avidity as a tool for identifying recent infections; clinical usefulness of hepatitis C virus core antigen (HCVAg) in diagnosis and monitoring, including health economic perspectives; quantitative serological biomarkers for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Author or coauthor of 234 scientific papers, of which 73 on international, peer-reviewed journals, and about 25 congress proceedings. Adjunct professor ("Sapienza" University of Roma) at postgraduate schools in Clinical Microbiology (years 1994-1999) and Clinical Pathology (1997 and 2001-2007). Seminars on infectious diseases diagnosis at the National Institute of Health (Roma, Italy) in 1996 and 2002-2003.
Main research activities in Infectious Diseases: development and validation of an off-label procedure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody avidity as a tool for identifying recent infections; clinical usefulness of hepatitis C virus core antigen (HCVAg) in diagnosis and monitoring, including health economic perspectives; quantitative serological biomarkers for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Author or coauthor of 234 scientific papers, of which 73 on international, peer-reviewed journals, and about 25 congress proceedings. Adjunct professor ("Sapienza" University of Roma) at postgraduate schools in Clinical Microbiology (years 1994-1999) and Clinical Pathology (1997 and 2001-2007). Seminars on infectious diseases diagnosis at the National Institute of Health (Roma, Italy) in 1996 and 2002-2003.
