Curriculum

CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor, academic discipline MED/08, Pathology. Department of Transitional Medicine, UNIFE.
QUALIFICATION
31/03/1987 – Degree in Medicine and Surgery, UNIFE
19/07/1991 – Specialist in Pathology, UNIFE
22/09/2004 – Master Degree in Epidemiology, UNIBO.
TEACHING ACIVITY
Professor of Pathology in the following Degree Courses UNIFE:
- Medicine and Surgery
- Dentistry
- Dental Hygiene
MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY
- Chief of UOSD Registro tumori, Azienda USL Ferrara (2013-);
- Member of the Technical-Scientific Coordination of the Tumor Registry of the Emilia-Romagna Region (2017-)
-  Advisor to the Epidemiology and Communication Area, Coordination Committee of the Italian Mammographic Screening Group (GISMa, 2021-);
- Member of the Italian Cervical Cancer Screening Group (GISCi, 2014-);
- Member of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Group (GISCoR, 2014-);
- Vice President (2007-2010 and 2019-2021) and President (2010-2013) of the Italian Association of Tumor Registries (AIRTUM)
- Collaboration with the Public Health Service of the Emilia-Romagna Region (2014-2019)
    Coordination of regional screening programs (2014-2019)
    Coordination of the regional Diagnostic-Therapeutic and Care Pathway (PDTA) for breast cancer (2016-2019)
    Coordination of the regional Diagnostic-Therapeutic and Care Pathway (PDTA) for colorectal cancer (2021-2024)
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-    Member of the Mammographic “Adolopment” Coordination Group, National Screening Observatory (2021-);
-    Member of the Editorial board of the journal Cancers (2021)
- Member of the AIRTUM-AIOM-ONS-PASSI national working group for the drafting of the annual report “Cancer numbers in Italy” (2011-21);
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
- Publications: over 300 articles in international scientific journals (H index=66), Citations: 19,131 (20 January 2025, Source: Scopus). Relations: 321 communications by invitation to Courses and Congresses.
Main Research Projects
- Project: “Definition of rehabilitation priorities for cancer survivors within the Integrated Oncology Program Rehabilitation interventions in Oncology” (Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Italian Association of Tumor Registries, 2008-2012)
- Project “Surveillance and monitoring of oncological pathology in Italy. Development, consolidation and computerization of the network of Tumor Registries” (Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policies - Italian Association of Tumor Registries, 2008-2012)
- Project: “EUROMED Cancer Registries Network, a cooperation across Mediterranean countries for improving cancer registration” (Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policies - Italian Association of Cancer Registries, 2009-2011
- Project: “EUROMED Cancer Registries Network, a cooperation across Mediterranean countries for improving cancer registration – phase 2 (Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policies - Italian Association of Cancer Registries, 2010-2012)
- EUROCARE Project on cancer survival in Europe (Director: National Cancer Institute, Milan)
- CARL (Cancer and AIDS Registry Linkage) study on the incidence of tumors in HIV+ and AIDS patients (Director: Aviano Oncology Reference Center, Pordenone)
- “IMPATTO” project for the evaluation of mammographic screening in Italy (Director: Oncology Studies and Prevention Center, Tuscan Cancer Registry, Florence)
- “IMPATTO” project for the evaluation of cervicovaginal screening in Italy (Director: Aviano Oncology Reference Center, Pordenone, Friuli Venezia-Giulia Cancer Registry)
- “IMPATTO” project for the evaluation of colorectal screening in Italy” (Coordination: Veneto Cancer Registry, Padua)
- HAEMACARE project for the study of Hemolymphopathies in Europe (Direction: Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki; National Cancer Institute, Milan)
- RARECARE project for the study of rare tumors in Europe (Coordination: National Cancer Institute, Milan).
- EUROCOURSE project (EUROpe against Cancer: Optimization of the Use of Registries for Scientific Excellence in research (coordination: Eindhoven Cancer Registry, Erasmus University Medical Cancer Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Piedmont Tumor Registry, CPO Piemonte, Turin).
- MONITER Project, Monitoring of Incinerators in the Emilia-Romagna Region (Department of Health Policies of the Emilia-Romagna Region; Regional Agency for Prevention and Environment of the Emilia-Romagna Region).
- SENTIERI Project (Istituto Superiore di Sanità): “National Epidemiological Study of Territories and Settlements Exposed to Risk of Pollution”.
CONCORD Project: Global surveillance of cancer survival (Director: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London UK)
Main Research Topics in Cancer Epidemiology:
- Cancer epidemiology: evaluation of risk factors, incidence, survival, prevalence and recovery at regional, national and international levels
- Impact of screening programs at regional and national levels.
- Hereditary-familial cancer risk management programs