CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Franco Bazzoli, MD
Education
1970 School of
Medicine, University of Bologna. MD Degree
1976 Fellowship in
Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine and
Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy
1979 Research Fellow
in Gastroenterology at the University of Pittsburgh, under Prof
Hans Fromm mentorship
1982 Research Fellow
in Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and
Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy
Academic and Clinical Positions:
1987 Assistant
Professor in Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine,
University of Bologna, Italy
1992 Associate
Professor in Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine,
University of Bologna, Italy
1999 Director of the
Postgraduate Specialization Program in Gastroenterology and
Digestive Endoscopy of the University of Bologna.
2001
Full Professor in Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine,
University of Bologna, Italy
2005 Director of the Program for Prevention and early Diagnosis of
Digestive Tumours and coordinator of second level program for
colorectal cancer screening, Policlinico
Sant'Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna, Italy
2010 Director of Gastroenterology, Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi,
University of Bologna, Italy
2014 Director of the Department of Digestive Disease, University Hospital Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy
Memberships:
Italian Society of Medicine
Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE)
Italian Society for Digestive Endoscopy (SIED – Member of the
board 2004 - 2008)
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
American Association for the study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
ASNEMGE (Member of the board 2005, general secretary 2007 and
President 2009 - 2010)
UEGF (Member of public Affaire Committee 2008 - 2010, Member of
the board as representative of the medical block societies 2008 –
2011, Founder and present Coordinator of the Femga, forum for the
European Medical Gastroenterology Associations, the UEGF medical
block 2008 - 2011)
Health National Institute (ISS, Istituto Superiore Sanità), Member of the Scientific Committee, 2016-2020.
Research:
More than 235 full-text peer-review articles
H-Index 2020 = 46 (Scopus), Citations: > 11000 (Scopus)
Reviewer and on the editorial board of ten peer-review
journals
Principal Investigator of several national and international
multicentre studies (Coordinator of the Loiano-Monghidororo
Project, a population based study on the epidemiology of upper GI
diseases)
Field of interest:
- Gallstone disease
- GI cancers
- Helicobacter pylori
