Civil status: Married
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 12/05/1947
Place of birth: Milan

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pavia

Specialization in Health and Preventive Medicine from the University of Pavia

Specialization in Dietary Science from the University of Milan

Specialization in Diabetology and Exchange Diseases from the University of Parma

French

Provided his services:

Assistant doctor at the Istituto Geriatrico (Geriatric Institution) Camillo Golgi di Abbiategrasso from 02/04/1973 to 15/06/1974

Assistant doctor at the Ospedale (Hospital) Carlo Mira di Casorate Ist from 17/06/1974 to 15/11/1976

at the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan and then, after it separated, at the Ospedale Niguarda
Health inspector, from 15/11/1976 to 19/03/1979
Vice health director from 20/3/1979 to 31/01/1980
General Medicine assistant from 01/02/1980 to 26/10/1988
Medical assistant with joint responsibility for General Medicine from 27/10/1988 to 01/12/1997

Consultant in the Functional Unit of Internal Medicine at the MultiMedica Policlinica (General Hospital) from 01/12/1997 to date

Completed Consultant Qualifying Assessment in:
Diabetology in 1987
Internal Medicine 1989

Elected on to the Board of Directors Council of the Italian Diabetology Society – Lombardy Section - for the three year period 1987-1989

Elected President of the Board of Directors of the Italian Diabetology Society – Lombardy Section for the two year period 1990-1991

Appointed by the Regional Council of Lombardy on 23/07/1987 as a member of the technical-scientific Commission in charge of defining the intervention system for the "Prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus" in Lombardy

Appointed by the Regional Council of Lombardy on 13/10/1988 as a member of the technical-scientific Commission for the studying and regulating hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Lombardy

Scientific reporter for the magazine Diabetes Care

Awarded the Certificate of Merit from the Italian Diabetic Association in October 1992

Partecipant in the survey of the diabetic condition in the Italian workplace organised by the Italian Institute of Social Medicine

Received the Association of Diabetologists-Guidotti Doctor’s prize for research into diabetology edition 1997

Member of the ECHM Consensus Conference Jury on hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of foot wound in diabetic patients

Awarded the "Evergreen 1999 " certificate of honour for activities relating to the treatment of the diabetic foot by the Italian Diabetic Association Foundation"

Member by special invitation of the American Diabetes Association since 1999

Teacher of "endocrinology" on the Podology degree course at the Bicocca University of Milan since 2002

Author of over 100 scientific publications in editorial reviews

Medical speaker in over 60 conferences

Author of 5 books and 7 sections in books relating to diabetic illness