Clinical Appointments

2023-now Médécin Chef Centre thérapie de la douleur Ensemble Hospitaler de la Côte - Morges - Switzerland 2022-2023 Médécin Agrée Centre thérapie de la douleur Ensemble Hospitaler de la Côte - Morges - Switzerland

2018- 2022 Responsible of Pain Therapy Service Policlinico Monza, Monza - Italy

2018- now Founder of Italian Pain Group

2014-2017 Responsible for Clinical Activity of Pain Therapy at University of Parma Hospital (8,500 visits/year, more than 4,000 procedures/year) on behalf of the Director of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy Service, Parma University Hospital

2014-2017 Responsible for Unit of Research in Chronic Pain at University of Parma; including management and oversight of a laboratory dedicated to research in genomics and pain, and including the following personnel: 2 physicians, 2 biologists, 2 nurses, 1 psychologist and 1 laboratory dedicated to genomics and pain 2003-2014 Responsible for the Acute Pain Service for Urology and General Surgery IRCCS (National Research Hospital) University of Pavia Hospital

2010-2014 Responsible for Research in Acute and Chronic Pain for University of Pavia

2003-2014 Responsible for Acute and Chronic Pain for IRCCS University of Pavia Hospital

Academic Appointments

2017- Passed national exam, approved as Full Professor in Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine 2015- Member of the Research Institute Center BioGeNap, research institute in collaboration with University of Parma and Italian Center of National Research (CNR)

2015-2017 Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Parma

2013- Passed national exam, approved as Associate Professor, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Pavia

2010-2015 – Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Pavia

Scientific Activity

PI of more than 20 multicenter and single center clinical trials, enrolling more than 3,000 patients Winner as Principal Investigators of 3 grants for a whole of 6.400.000 euros

Winner as Co-Principal Investigators of 2 grants for a whole of 6.020.000 euros

Research Interests

  • Regenerative Medicine and low back pain
  • Low back pain
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Spinal cord stimulation and pain
  • Chronic postoperative pain
  • Genomics and pharmacogenetics in acute/chronic pain
  • New clinical and laboratory biomarkers of pain and for pain diagnosis

Author of 115 full length papers in peer review journals H index 29 (web of science/Scopus), Impact factor 350