University and postgraduate education
- Degree in Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Bologna
(1992 - 1997) University of Bologna, October 8, 1997 - Vote 110/110
cum laude.
- Specialization in Hospital Pharmacy, Universityof Bologna, July
18, 2001 Vote: 70/70 cum laude.
- PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology (XVIII), University of
Bologna, April 3, 2006.
- National Scientific Qualification in Farmacology, (05/G1
– Associate Professor).
Previous and current jobs
- Military service as a Lieutenant (pharmacist) and task in the
"Command of the health and veterinary service, South Military
Region – Naples”, assigned to the Pharmaceutical Section from 4
August 1998 to 14 July 1999 (subject to national competition for
the 128 ° Cadet course – Military Body Health, 1st prize at the
national level).
- Fellowship in Pharmacoepidemiology at the Regional Center for
Evaluation and Information on Drugs - Department of Pharmacology,
University of Bologna (from May 2000 to May 2006), Supervisor:
Professor Nicola Montanaro.
- Research fellowship for collaborative activities in the
research project "Construction and testing of indicators of quality
of prescription", Department of Pharmacology, University of Bologna
(from May 2, 2006 to April 7, 2010).
- Permanent employment (as a result from national public
competition) at the Local Health Authority of Imola (Bologna,
Italy) as Hospital Pharmacist (from 8 April 2010 to 22 December
2011).
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine
of the University of Bologna from 23 December 2011.
Other professional activities
- Member of the editorial board of the quarterly newsletter
"FOCUS Pharmacovigilance" (ISDB) (from may 2001 to june 2008 and
from may 2012 to date), (http://www.farmacovigilanza.eu/node/50).
- Member of the "Subcommittee for European Procedures” at the
Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) from september 2004 to October
2009.
- Consultant for the Independent Ethics Committee of the
University Hospital of Bologna (S. Orsola-Malpighi) for the period
July 2013 - December 2017.
- Member of the Clinical Pharmacology Committee of the Italian Society of Pharmacology (from October 2017).
- Member of the Local Scientific Committee of the 38th National SIF Congress, Rimini, October 25-28, 2017.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the 43th National SIFO Congress, Bologna, 27-30 ottobre 2022
- Scientific contact for pharmacovigilance and pharmautilization activities for the Drug and medical device governance area (Hospital care sector), of the Department of Health Policies of the Emilia Romagna Region from December 2018 to date.
Teaching activities
For the institutional teaching activity, see the section Teaching
- Teacher of the educational module (30 hours) entitled
"Prescription, reimbursement and pricing of drugs" at the
Professional Master "Drug Evaluation and pharmacoepidemiology"
(Director: Prof. Nicola Montanaro), University of Bologna from 2006
to 2013.
- Teacher of Pharmacology (15 hours) at the Professional Master
"Nursing management for coordination tasks" (Villa Maria Hospital,
Ravenna), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome from 2009
onwards.
- Teaching collaboration from 2002 in several courses of
pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Bologna
- Teacher of seminars entitled "Pharmacovigilance" at the School
of Specialization in Hospital Pharmacy, University of Bologna (from
2003 to 2008).
Institutional activities
Director of First Cycle Degree in Nursing, Campus of Ravenna, Place of Faenza, University of Bologna from 1 october 2016 to 31 october 2022.
Referee for the following scientific Journals
Advances in therapy, Ageing Research Reviews, Annals of Biometrics & Biostatistics, Annals of Cardiovascular Diseases, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, BioDrugs, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, BMC Health Services Research, BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, BMC Research Notes, British Medical Journal (BMJ), BMJ Open Respiratory Research, BMJ Open, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Chemical Research in Toxicology, Clinical Drug investigation, Clinical research and regulatory affairs, Current Drug Safety, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), CMAJ Open, Clinical Drug Investigation, CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, Drug Safety, Drugs - Real World Outcomes, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, Expert review of vaccines, Expert review of anti-infective therapy Immunotherapy, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Scientific reports, Journal of Clinical and Translational Research, Pediatric drugs, Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, Reports, Springer Plus, Thorax.
Editorial Board member of the European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology from January 2017 to 30 June 2023.
Associate editor of the European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology from 1 July 2023.
MIUR referee for the PRIN 2015 call.
MIUR Referee for Research Projects on COVID-19 (2020).
Scientific publications
- Author of 71 scientific papers published since 2002 on
peer-reviewed international journals.
- Author of 7 papers in italian.
- Author of several contributions to national or international
Conferences.
Member of scientific associations
- Italian Society of Pharmacology, member
