During summer 2002 I've attended for
3 months, since June until August, the Internal Medicine Department directed
by Prof. Mario Miglioli, tutored by Prof. Massimo Campieri and Dr. Rossella
Romagnoli.
Since October 2002, until today, I'm
collaborating with Prof. Antonio Gaddi, director of the “Center for the study
of Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Diseases <<Giancarlo Descovich>>”
of the Bologna University. There one of my engagements is to analyse and to
interpret the Myocardial Perfusion Scoring System output. I'm involved in the
"Massa Lombarda Program".
Since 2003, until today, I'm
cooperating with
Prof. Mirko Degli Esposti in the effort of transferring Information Sciences
methods and knowledge to the study of bio-complexity, particularly concerning
genetic sequences and cardiac time series.
On October 10th and 11th 2005 I've
been visiting the Navy Centre of Medicine of the Portuguese Navy. I've learned
about the activities and the workflow of the following Departments: Primary
Care/Preventive Medicine; Occupational Medicine; Operational Medicine,
Dentistry and Psychology.
On October 12th and 13th 2005 I've
been visiting the Instituto do Coração in Carnaxide (Lisbon, Portugal), a
private research centre which made the history of Portuguese cardiology
development, in close collaboration with Santa Cruz Hospital. I've attended
the following Departments: Nuclear Medicine; Doppler; Cardiac Rehabilitation;
Stress Test; Holter; Hypertension; Scientific Investigation on Cardiovascular
Diseases; Preventive Cardiology.
Since January 2007 I'm among the
researches engaged within the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the "Alma
Mater Studiorum" University of Bologna on the european multicentric research
project OLDES
(OLDer people's E-Services at home), co-funded by the 6th european Framework
Program under the IST Program, for a total amount of
€ 3.647.844,00.
The international partners are: ENEA (IT), "Alma Mater Studiorum"
University of Bologna (IT), University of Newcastleupon-Tyne (UK), Prague
Technical University (CZ), Charles
University of Prague (CZ), INK Media (Canada), CETIC (BE), Agentscape (DE),
Bologna Municipality (IT), CUP 2000 (IT), AUSL of Bologna (IT).