Centro Studi GISED

Luigi Naldi
Dermatologist. After having worked for many years at Ospedali Riuniti of Bergamo (now Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital), since July 3 2017, he has become the director of the complex unit of Dermatology at San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza. He is convinced that research and clinical practice cannot be separate. He has been an investigator with the Istituto Mario Negri of Milan and Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva. He has been appointed a honorary member of the Societé Française de Dermatologie and Director of Centro Studi GISED. His challenge is to do research in Italy independently from industrial interests and outside the usual appointed places such as the university. He evidently succeeds thanks to a splendid and vital heterogeneous working group. Long-live freedom!

Alberto Zucchi

Director of the Epidemiological department, Health Protection Agency of Bergamo.

Carlo La Vecchia

Prof. La Vecchia graduated in Medicine from the University of Milan, he got a Master degree in Clinical Medicine (Epidemiology) from Oxford University and a degree in Pharmacology Research from "Mario Negri" Institute in Milan. Head of General Epidemiology Laboratory at the Pharmacological Research Institute "Mario Negri", Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Milan. He is also Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (since 2002) and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, (2002-2009). His main topics of interest include cancer epidemiology and the risk associated with oral contraceptives, tobacco, diet, occupational or environmental exposures to toxic agents, analysis of temporal trends and geographical distribution of mortality from cancer, cardiovascular diseases, perinatal and other major diseases. He is author or coauthor of more than 1,480 publications on these topics, which have received more than 52,000 citations. Prof. La Vecchia was Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (1996-2001), and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Stomatological Medicine at the Eastman Dental Institute, University College London (1996-2003). He is Senior Advisor at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC/WHO and the World Health Organization in Geneva, he is a registered physician and journalist in Milan.

Elena Pezzolo

Young specialist in Dermatology and Venereology in collaboration with the University of Rotterdam and Bern. My field of interest mainly concerns the epidemiology of dermatological diseases, of which little is known. My work aims, in particular, to use the power of clinical data - collected in different countries - to answer key questions in the field of dermatology. I am always interested in new national and international collaborations, as new ideas arise from interaction and the work of a qualified team enhances scientific research.

Mara Maccarone

Graduated in languages and literature, she had worked in the foreign subsidiary of two major insurance companies and was then appointed to manage two major insurance agencies for 8 years. She is registered as a professional journalist in the Italian Federation of Journalists - established under Article 28 of Law n° 69 of 02/03/1969. President of ADIPSO (Association for the Defense of psoriasis), a non-profit organization she founded in 1989, being herself a psoriatic and arthropathic patient. Member of the Commission for Self-Help, a group established by the Ministry of Health Decree No. 1545 for chronic diseases. Here she worked for the recognition of psoriasis as a social and disabling disease (ref. law n ° 226). She put a lot of effort in research programs with the Institute of Rheumatology, University of Rome "La Sapienza", with the Department of Human Genetics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the University of studies of L'Aquila. Currently she is pursuing a project funded by the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Institute S. Gallicano, the IDI institute of Rome and the Dermatology Clinic of the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. Member from April 2004 of the Executive Committee of EPF (European Patients' Forum) within the European Community in Brussels. President of F.I.M.De. (Italian Federation of dermatological diseases). Honorary Member of the Italian Scientific Dermatological Societies SIDEMAST and ADOI and the Scientific Society of Dermatology of the Czech Republic. Since January 2010 she is part of GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis) and of EULAR (The European League Against Rheumatism); from April 2010 she is member of the Observatory of Health of the Italian Republic Senate. She is member of the working group Psocare.

Vincenzo Bettoli

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery - University of Bologna 1981.
Dermatology and Venereology Specialist - University of Bologna 1984.
Current position: 1st level Executive Doctor - Dermatology department - University Hospital of Ferrara.
Professor at the University of Ferrara.
Current fields of interest in research: Acne, Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Rosacea.
Current hospital care activities: Acne Outpatient Clinic, Hydrosadenitis Outpatient Clinic, Dermatological Surgery.
Former Vice-President of ADOI, currently head of the Acne Study Group.
Member of the EADV Task Force for Acne, Hydrosadenite and Rosacea.
Active member of IDEOM, EHSF.
Referee of many international scientific journals in the field of dermatology, cited on Pubmed.
Author and co-author of 119 scientific articles cited on Pubmed.

Vito Ingordo

He attended the Interforce Military Academy of Health - Marine Section - at the Naval Academy of Livorno. In 1979 he graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa. In 1983 he obtained the Specialization in Dermatology and Venereology at the University of Naples and, in 1990, the Specialization in Leprology and Tropical Dermatology at the University of Genoa. During his career as Medical Officer of the Navy he held the positions of Head of Dermatology Department of the Hospital of the Navy of La Spezia, of Head of Infectious Diseases of the Military Hospital of Taranto and of Head of Dermatology Department of the Military Hospital of Taranto. He was Director of the aforementioned Hospital and then Director of Health of the Navy of Taranto. He is currently retired from the duties of the Ministry of Defense and works as an outpatient specialist at the ASL of Taranto.
He is Secretary of the Dermatoepidemiology and Evidence Based Dermatology Study Group of the Italian Hospital Dermatologists Association. He is co-author of 25 scientific publications in international journals and about 40 scientific publications in Italian magazines.

Scientific Committee

Dr. Luigi Naldi

Dr. Alberico Motolese

Prof. Angelo Valerio Marzano

Dr. Anna Di Landro

Dr. Paola Pini

Prof. Roberto Labianca