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Gianfranco Militerno

Assistant professor

Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences

Academic discipline: VET/03 Veterinary Pathology

Curriculum vitae

Gianfranco Militerno

Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences - Pathological Anatomy Laboratory Service, School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine - University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra, 50 - 40064 Ozzano Emilia (BO) - Italy

Tel. ++39 051-2097971 FAX ++39 051 2097968

e-mail: gianfranco.militerno@unibo.it

Personal data

Date of birth: 15 May 1965

Place of birth: Cosenza

Home: Via Giovanni Verga, 31 - 40026 - Imola (Bologna) 

Nationality: Italian

Education

1983      High school diploma, Liceo Ginnasio 'Bernardino Telesio' - Cosenza - Italy · Final mark: 54/60.

1993      Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - University of Bologna - Italy · Final mark: 110/110.

1998      Ph.D. in Anatomohistopathological Veterinary Sciences

1998-2000  Post Doc

2000           Researcher

Other experience

Worked on occasion as a collaborator in some veterinary clinic for small animals.

Teaching

Assistant Professor

2000-2002  Morphological and Pathophysiological Veterinary Diagnostic Methodology, Veterinary Oncology and Pathology and clinic of small animals - degree in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

Specialization Course: Pathology and Clinic of Small Animals, University of Bologna, Italy.

2002-2003 "Autopsy" - degree in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

2003-2011 "Autopsy Techniques and Post Mortem Diagnosis" - degree in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

2005-2008 "Pathology and Autopsy Techniques" - degree in "Health and Quality of Animal Productions", Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

2009-2012 "Large Animal Pathology" - degree in "Health and Quality of Animal Productions", Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

2011-2013 "Laboratory Animals Pathological Anatomy and Animal Models of Human Diseases" -  degree in Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

2013-2016 "Laboratory Animals Pathological Anatomy" -  degree in Animal Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Italy.

2012-2021 "Necropsy techniques and post-mortem diagnosis" (35693 - Autopsy Techniques and Pathologic Diagnosis -Integrated Course -  Degree in Veterinary Medicine);

2021-2024 " PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY INTERNSHIP" (Module 7) as component of the integrated course "PRACTICE OF ANATOMOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES";

2017 "Post-mortem diagnosis", Master di II livello "Allevamento e sanità dei bovini".

2023 "Post-mortem forensic work, "VETERINARY FORENSIC MEDICINE MASTER".

2003-2004, 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 Specialization Course: "Infectious diseases of companion animals" in Post-Graduate School "Animal Health and Production", Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

2005-2006, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Specialization Courses: "Pathological Anatomy in food inspection" and Pathological Anatomy in food hygiene” in Post-Graduate School "Food Inspection", Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

Member of the teaching staff of the School of Doctorate in "Anatomo-histopathological sciences" (2002-2010) and member of the teaching staff of the Doctorate in "Veterinary Morphophysiology and Animal Pathology with Biotechnological Applications" (2011-2012).

Research interests

·        Veterinary oncology: 

  -         oncogenic activity of vaccines in the cat;

  -         neoplasms of the respiratory system in domestic animals;

  -         neoplasms of the urinary tract in domestic animals;

  -         proliferative cellular activity in canine and feline lymphomas.

·         Cytological and histopathological diagnostic techniques

·         Congenital hepatic fibrosis in Romagnola calves and bovine Besnoitiosis. Bovine Besnoitiosis.

·         Encephalitozoon cuniculi in slaughtered rabbits

·         Hepatitis E (HEV) in swine

.         Cysticercosis in european brown Hares

.         BOVINE NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES AS A MODEL FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCHES

Membership in Professional Associations

·        S.C.I.V.A.C. - Società Culturale Italiana Veterinari per Animali da Compagnia from 1994 to 2004.

·        A.I.P.Vet. (ex A.P.I.V. ) - Associazione Italiana di Patologia Veterinaria from 1995.

·        S.I.Ci. - Società Italiana di Citologia (1997-2008).

·        ESVP - European Society of Veterinary Pathology from August 31, 2007.

Number of Publications: 85. Author or Co-author of papers in Journal with or without IF,  Proceedings of Meetings and some chapters and paragraphs of books.

Significant intramural committees

Member of Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences Council, University of Bologna, Italy.

Member of Quality Management Committee of the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Animal Pathology - Pathological Anatomy Laboratory Service, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, from 2002 to 2008.