CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Franco Bazzoli, MD
Full Professor of Gastroenterology
DIMEC Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences
University of Bologna
Director of the Gastroenterology Unit
Director of the Digestive System Department
S. Orsola Malpighi Polyclinic
Education
University of Bologna, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
1976 Degree in Medicine and Surgery
1980 Specialization in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy
1986 Specialization in Internal Medicine
Roles
1976 University Resident Physician with nursing duties (MIUCA) at the Institute of Clinical Medicine and Gastroenterology
1979 Research Fellow in Gastroenterology at the University of Pittsburgh
1982 Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Institute of Clinical Medicine and Gastroenterology
1992 Associate Professor with equivalent status Full-time hospital assistant, designated as a Level I Managerial Physician, Band A, full-time since 1994
2001 Full Professor of Gastroenterology, Scientific Disciplinary Sector MED/12 – Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Bologna
2003 Head of the Corporate Program for the Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Digestive System Tumors
2005 Head of the Departmental Unit of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy for the Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Digestive System Tumors at the S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital
2010 Director of the Complex Operating Unit of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy at the S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital
2014 Director of the Integrated Activity Department (DAI) of the Digestive System at the S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital
Roles
- Member of the International Affairs Committee of SIGE 1996-2000
- Regional Councilor of SIED (Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy) 1995-2001
- General Secretary of the Steering Committee of UNIGASTRO (National Coordination of
- Gastroenterology Teachers) 2000-2003
- President of UNIGASTRO 2003-2006
- Member of the National Board of Directors of SIED 2004-2008
- Member of the Board of Directors of FIMAD (Italian Federation of Digestive System Diseases) 2008-2010
- Member of the Central Board of Directors of ASNEMGE (Association of National European and Mediterranean Societies of Gastroenterology) and Head of the Educational Committee within this body 2005-2007
- ASNEMGE General Secretary 2007-2008
- ASNEMGE President 2009-2011
- Member of the UEGF Public Affairs Committee 2008-2010
- Member of the UEGF (United European Gastroenterology Federation) Board of Directors 2008-2011
- Member of the UEGF Medical Block Societies Board of Directors 2008-2011
- Founder and Coordinator of the UEGF Forum for the European Medical Gastroenterology Associations (fEMGA) 2008-2011
- Member of the International Committee of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) from 2011 to 2015
- Member of the National Commission for the awarding of National Scientific Qualification for the positions of full and associate professor in the competitive sector 06/D4-SKIN DISEASES INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES 2016-2018
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome 2016-2020
Teaching Activities
Degree in Medicine and Surgery
1992: Lecturer of the Integrated Course in Digestive System Diseases in the fourth year of the Degree in Medicine and Surgery and since the Academic Year
2002: Head of Channel B of the Integrated Course in Gastroenterology, Endocrine System and Metabolism Diseases in the fourth year of the Degree in Medicine and Surgery
Specialization School in Gastroenterology
Lecturer from 1990 to present
1992: Secretary of the Specialization School in Gastroenterology, University of Bologna.
1999: Director of the Specialization School in Gastroenterology, University of Bologna.
2019 Director of the School of Specialization in Digestive System Diseases (new organization).
Scientific Societies
- Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE)
- Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED)
- American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
- Cochrane UGPD Group, within the Cochrane Collaboration;
- European Gastro Club
Scientific Activity
Reviewer and editorial board member of numerous indexed journals.
Clinical investigator of national and international multicenter studies (coordinator of the Loiano-Monghidoro project, a population-based study on the epidemiology of upper gastrointestinal tract diseases).
Author of scientific publications in the fields of:
- Hepatobiliary physiology
- Treatment of cholesterol-related gallstones
- Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of H. pylori infection
- Prevention of digestive tract tumors
- Epidemiology of upper digestive tract diseases
Over the past three years, scientific activity has focused primarily on:
- Chemoprevention of gastrointestinal tumors and their predisposing conditions through the use of dietary bioactives and synthetic molecules
- Obesity and colorectal cancer
- Molecular pathways of colon cancer
- Epigenetics of colorectal cancer Epidemiology of upper digestive tract diseases
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Interventional endoscopy
- Participation in the boards of international consensus conferences (Management of Helicobacter pylori infection - the Maastricht IV/Florence Consensus Report - 2012; the Kyoto global consensus meeting on H. pylori gastritis - 2014)
