All about Orazio Schillaci, the doctor who takes the place of the politician Speranza alla Salute
Orazio Schillaci will be the new Minister of Health in place of Roberto Speranza. Here is Schillaci's biography
Orazio Schillaci has no precedent in politics, but he was a member of several Health Commissions for the Lazio Region and for the Ministry of Health.
He worked as an expert for the Superior Health Council between 2006 and 2009, and in 2020 the outgoing Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, appointed him to the scientific committee of the Higher Institute of Health.
He is the successor of Roberto Speranza: a figure also appreciated by Giorgia Meloni.
Romano since 1966 Schillaci has specialized in nuclear medicine at the La Sapienza University of Rome, a subject he has been teaching since 2007.
During his university career he also took part in various health commissions at the Lazio Region and at the Ministry of Health. In 2020 he was appointed to the scientific committee of the Higher Institute of Health which supported the ministry in the key decisions taken during the Covid-19 pandemic.
During his academic career he has been the author of over 220 publications in extensive journals included in PubMed, with more than 4700 citations, and is reviewer of over 50 international interviews.
From 2011 to 2019 he held the position of Vice Dean first, and then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", as well as being Director of the specialization school in nuclear medicine since 2008.
During his tenure in the rectorate he decided to focus "on the quality and internationalization of research, including industrial".
According to the World University Ranking, drawn up every year by the Times, the University of Tor Vergata was positioned among the top 350 most prestigious universities in the world, an excellent leap forward. In Italy he conquered the seventh position out of 51.
HERE IS THE FULL CURRICULUM OF ORAZIO SCHILLACI
From November 2019 Rector of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
Full Professor of Nuclear Medicine since 2007. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery since 2013. Director of the UOC of Nuclear Medicine of the Tor Vergata Polyclinic since 2001. He teaches in the degree course in Medicine and Surgery, in the degree course in TRM and in many graduate schools. He is member of the Editorial Board of the 2 most prestigious international journals in the field of Nuclear Medicine (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging and J Nucl Med). Author of 220 full articles on PubMed.
Main research lines
Molecular imaging and fusion with hybrid machines in cardiology, oncology, neurology and in the study of inflammatory-infectious processes; scintigraphy with marked analogues of somatostatin in neuroendocrine tumors; receptor scintigraphy with FP-CIT and metabolic PET with FDG in Parkinson's disease; study of the cerebral metabolism in Alzheimer's disease; research of vital myocardium with radioisotope techniques; study of the diabetic foot with radioisotope techniques; characterization of inflammatory and infectious processes with FDG-PET; staging and restaging of patients with approx. prostatic with F-18 choline; evaluation early response to FDG-PET therapy in patients with malignant lymphomas; study of the adrenergic innervation of the myocardium with radioisotope techniques; use of molecular imaging techniques in tumors.
Relevant publications
- Alessandrini M, Pagani M, Napolitano B, Micarelli A, Candidi M, Bruno E, Chiaravalloti A, Di Pietro B, Schillaci O. Early and phasic cortical metabolic changes in vestibular neuritis onset . PLoS One. 2013; 8 (3): e57596. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0057596. Epub 2013 Mar 7. PubMed PMID: 23505435; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3591410
- Schillaci O. Use of dual-point fluorodeoxyglucose imaging to enhance sensitivity and specificity . Semin Nucl Med. 2012 Jul; 42 (4): 267-80. doi: 10.1053 / j.semnuclmed.2012.02.003. Review. PubMed PMID: 22681676
- Schillaci O. The importance of standardized interpretation of molecular breast imaging with dedicated gamma cameras . Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2012 Jun; 39 (6): 967-70. doi: 10.1007 / s00259-012-2095-y. PubMed PMID: 22415600
- Schillaci O, Calabria F, Tavolozza M, Caracciolo CR, Finazzi Agrò E, Miano R, Orlacchio A, Danieli R, Simonetti G. Influence of PSA, PSA velocity and PSA doubling time on contrast-enhanced 18F-choline PET / CT detection rate in patients with rising PSA after radical prostatectomy. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2012 Apr; 39 (4): 589-96. doi: 10.1007 / s00259-011-2030-7. Epub 2012 Jan 10. PubMed PMID: 22231016
- Schillaci O, Chiaravalloti A, Pierantozzi M, Di Pietro B, Koch G, Bruni C, Stanzione P, Stefani A. Different patterns of nigrostriatal degeneration in tremor type versus the akinetic-rigid and mixed types of Parkinson's disease at the early stages: molecular imaging with 123I-FP-CIT SPECT. Int J Mol Med. 2011 Nov; 28 (5): 881-6. doi: 10.3892 / ijmm.2011.764. Epub 2011 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 21811760.
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