Francesco Menzella

ACADEMIC AND STUDY TITLES DEGREE and PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION Qualification to practice as a Doctor-Surgeon: November 1998 session at the University of Rome \"La Sapienza\". Medicine and Surgery obtained on 25 February 1998 with a grade of 110/110 cum laude at the University of Rome \"La Sapienza\". BOARD CERTIFIED IN: Respiratory Medicine achieved on 29 October 2009 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with a grade of 110/110 cum laude; Allergology and Clinical Immunology achieved on 2 December 2003 at the University of Parma with a grade of 50/50. SKILLS AND COMPETENCES He has acquired consolidated experience in the direct management and coordination of collaborators in outpatient and ward clinical activity as well as in semi-intensive respiratory therapy aimed at the main acute and chronic pleuro-pulmonary diseases (inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, obstructive, restrictive) even in critically ill patients. He has developed clinical interaction skills with all the specialist and professional figures involved in multi-disciplinary paths. He knows in depth and regularly uses traditional respiratory physiopathology diagnostic methods (plethysmographic spirometry, CO diffusion test, bronchodynamic tests with bronchodilator and with specific and non-specific bronchoconstrictor, walking test, shuttle test) and innovative investigations such as forced impulse oscillometry (FOT ) for the study of small airway dysfunction in obstructive respiratory diseases (asthma and COPD). INSTITUTIONS AND SERVICES PROVIDED • From March 2022 Head of Pulmonology Unit, AULSS2 Marca Trevigiana, Ospedale San Valentino e S. Giacomo, Montebelluna & Castelfranco Veneto (TV) • January 2022: National certification for Assistant Professor of Respiratgory Medicine, MED 10 06/D1, Italy. • From November 2009 to February 2022: Consultant at the Pneumology Unit of the Local Health Authority of Reggio Emilia-IRCSS, at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Reggio Emilia. • From January 2017 to february 2022: holder of high professionality \"Respiratory Allergology and Asthma\". • Head of the Severe Asthma Center of Reggio Emilia from January 2017 to February 2022. WORK EXPERIENCES From November 2009 to February 2022: Consultant at the Pneumology Unit of the Local Health Authority of Reggio Emilia-IRCSS, at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Reggio Emilia. From 2006 to 2009 • Resident in the Respiratory medicine School at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Clinical practice carried out as part of the specialization school at the University Hospital of Modena and the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Reggio Emilia. From 2004 to 2006 • He worked as a freelance doctor at the U.O. of Pneumology of the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Reggio Emilia, where he was in charge of the Respiratory Allergology clinic, as well as providing assistance in the ward, the day hospital and the respiratory sleep disorders outpatient clinic. From 2003 to 2014 • Accredited medical inspector for general anti-doping operations (DCO) - CONI-NADO and the Italian Sports Medicine Federation (FMSI). From 2002 to 2009 • Freelance doctor at the private “Villa Maria Luigia” clinic in Monticelli Terme (PR), a neuro-psychiatric clinic with dedicated beds for complex psychiatric disorders, drug addiction and neurodegenerative diseases. From 2004 to 2008 • Freelance doctor at the private “Val Parma” clinic in Langhirano (PR), equipped with dedicated beds for internal pathologies and post-orthopedic prosthetic surgery rehabilitation. From 2004 to 2005• Carried out assistance activities as a fixed-term outpatient specialist at the Center for Allergy and Clinical Immunology of the Local Health Unit of Parma. TEACHING ACTIVITY From 2014 to 2016 • Teacher and tutor at the specific training course in General Medicine of the EmiliaRomagna Region. From 2006 to today • Has carried out teaching activities in Masters and theoretical-practical courses for pulmonologist specialists. From 2006 to 2011 • Adjunct Professor at the Degree Course in \"Techniques of Medical Radiology for Imaging and Radiotherapy\" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with the teaching of \"Diseases of the Respiratory System\". COURSES, CONGRESSES, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS Invited speaker at more than 140 national and international meetings. PUBLICATIONS Author and coauthor of more than 120 articles published on peer reviewed journals.