University: Degree cum laude in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of Rome in July, 1981. Thesis in Obstetrics. Specialist training: Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University Hospital of Bari (1982-1985) with an elective period at King’s College Hospital . Suspecialty: Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital of Bari (1987) Post-specialist training: Research fellow in Fetal Medicine at the University Hospital of Bari and Honorary Registrar at the Fetal Medicine Centre of Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital (1986-87). Diploma by the Family Planning Clinic and Joint Committee of Contraception. Academic appointments: Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Bari from 1988. Senior Lecturer from 1995. Chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Foggia (from November 2000). Head of the Midwifery School at the same University (from 2002). Visiting Professor at the University College of London (2001). Responsible of the specialist training program in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for the University of Foggia. Full Professor in obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Foggia. Full Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Ferrara. PRESENT APPOINTMENT Full Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Ferrara Italy. Head of the Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, training program and Midwifery School University Hospital of Ferrara Italy RESEARCH ACTIVITY Research in the field of Congenital Abnormalities of the foetus, Rhesus Disease, surgical procedures in Obstetrics. Involved in the field of Obstetric Syndromes, in Gynaecological Oncology, in Menopause.