Project Description
WORK EXPERIENCE
2015– NOW HEAD OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RETINA SERVICE AT BIELLA STATE HOSPITAL
2015 VITREO RETINAL CONSULTANT AT BIELLA STATE HOSPITAL
2013 – 2015 HEAD OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RETINA SERVICE AT OPHTHALMOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE SS. TRINITÀ HOSPITAL IN BORGOMANERO
2009-2012 HEAD OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RETINA SERVICE AT OPHTHALMOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE SS. TRINITÀ HOSPITAL IN ARONA
SINCE 2002 MEDICAL ASSISTANT AT THE SS. TRINITÀ HOSPITAL IN ARONA
1999 – 2001 PHYSICIAN AT THE BOARD OF REGIONAL BLIND COMMISSION FROM VARESE PROVINCE 1997 – 1998 OBERATZ AT THE UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC OF TÜBINGEN (GERMANY)
1993 – 2001 MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSISTANT AT CASA DI CURA MATER DOMINI IN CASTELLANZA 1990 – 1993 MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSISTANT AT SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, CASTELLANZA
DIDACTIC ACTIVITY
2006 – 2011 ORGANISER AND SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR OF ADVANCED COURSES IN VITREORETINAL
PATHOLOGIES AND SURGERY AT SS TRINITÀ HOSPITAL OF ARONA
2008 ONE WEEK OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL TEACHING AT THE CCP HOSPITAL AND
GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITAL OF BAKU (AZERBAIJAN
2006 – 2015 PERFORMING LIVE VITREORETINAL SURGERY AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN MUMBAI, INDIA (2006-‘07-‘08), BAKU, AZERBAIJAN (2010), MOSCOW, RUSSIA (2009-2011-
2013) MILAN, ITALY (2014) , TBILISI, GEORGIA (2014) AND EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA
(2015)
1998 – 2005 ORGANIZER OF INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASES OF THE
RETINA. BAVENO SEPT 10TH
2004 EXTERNAL PROFESSOR IN THE COURSE OF VITREORETINAL PATHOLOGIES OF THE
SPECIALIZATION SCHOOL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF VARESE
1995 – 1997 THE TEACHING STAFF OF OPHTHALMOLOGY IN THE VARESE COURSE OF MEDICINE AND
SURGERY, UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Fellowships and Stages:
1985 Two months Grant at the Warsaw Eye Clinic – Poland
1989 One-month stage at S. Gerardo Hospital, Monza (Prof. V De Molfetta), Italy
1990 Retina fellowship at the Hopital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon (Prof. M Bonnet), France
1991 Retina fellowship at Universitats AugenKlinik Tübingen (Prof I Kreissig), Germania
1991 Retina Fellowship at the Cornell University – The New York Hospital – N.Y. (USA)
1994 Retina Fellowship at the Barnes Hospital – St.Louis- Missouri -(USA)
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Main research activities:
-Vitreoretinal Surgery and Small Gauge Vitrectomy for PVR, PDR, Vascular Diseases, Macular Surgery, Trauma’s -Episcleral Surgery -Cataract surgery
He has participated among the principal investigators in a multicentric international clinical trial on RON Vs IVT injection in the treatment of CRVO (ROVO Study)
Surgical Experience:
1992- 2001: 450 Pars plana Vitrectomies, 300 Phaco’s with IOL implant, 250 ECCE’s with IOL implant 637 Buckling Procedures.
Since 2002 he is performing per year on average about 600 Phaco-emulsification with IOL implant, 300 Pars Plana Vitrectomies for all the possible vitreoretinal surgeries, 80 Buckling procedures, 10 Corneal grafts
Association memberships
Italian Society of Ophthalmology (SOI) Italian Society of Vitreoretinal Surgery (GIVRE) Italian Society of Retina (SIR) American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) European VitreoRetinal Society (EVRS) Bulgarian Ophthalmological Society (Honorary Member)