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Riccardo Schiavina

Full Professor

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Academic discipline: MED/24 Urology

Head of Scuola di Specializzazione Urologia (DI 68/2015)

Curriculum vitae

 

RICCARDO SCHIAVINA: CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information

  • Born in 8-8-1973 in Bologna (Italy)
  • 9 Bianchini street, Bologna, Italy
  • Phone: 00393494447896- 0039051 6362747- fax 00390516362743
  • Mail: rschiavina@yahoo.it [mailto:rschiavina@yahoo.it] ; riccardo.schiavina3@unibo.it [mailto:riccardo.schiavina3@unibo.it]

Professional course

  • Medical degree in 1999, University of Bologna (110/110)
  • Degree of Urologist in 2005, University of Bologna (110/110)
  • Since 1st January 2006 till 1st November 2008: Urologist at Dept. Urology, University of Bologna at S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
  • Since 1st November 2008 till 1st November 2014: Assistant Professor at Dept. Urology, University of Bologna at S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
  • Since 1st November 2014: Associate Professor in Urology at Dept. Urology, University of Bologna at S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
  • Since 1st November 2021: Professor in Urology at Dept. Urology, University of Bologna at S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Howards and honours

  • Head of Imaging Section, Italian Association of Urology (SIU) (2014-2017)
  • Associate Member EAU Section Urological Imaging (ESUI)
  • Head of “Laser Program” for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy at the Department of Urology (DIMES), University of Bologna
  • Extensor of Italian Guidelines for Italian Society of Urology in the field of Prostate cancer biopsy, Urinary infection, PET imaging in Urology
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Italian Society of Uro-oncology (SIUro)
  • Member of the scientific committee of the Master of Robotic Urological Surgery at the University of Bologna and Tutor of Robotic- Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
  • Member of the scientific committee of Advanced Studies in Urological Oncology Foundation (SAMUR Foundation)
  • Member of the scientific committee of Doctorate (PhD) in Cardiologic-Nephro-Urologic and Thoracic Science , University of Bologna

Research activities and grants

  • Main research activities are directed to uro-oncology, in particular to new imaging and molecular techniques for the diagnosis of prostate cancer (Multiparametric MRI, new metabolic radiotracers for PET/CT, CTC and FPDNA).
  • Lead investigator of “DNA-free, CTC and micrometastases in prostate cancer diagnosis and staging” study (private grant)

  • Lead investigator of the Urological Group of an Italian search in the field of prostate cancer imaging titled: "ANTI -3-18F-FACBC VS 11C-CHOLINE IN PTS TREATED FOR PROSTATE CANCER" (public grant)
  • Co-investigator of “Magnetic resonance imaging Spectroscopy and PET/CT in the diagnosis of prostate cancer” study (public grant)
  • Co-investigator of “DaVinci System in prostate cancer treatment” project (public grant)

  • Member of MIRROR (MULTICENTER ITALIAN REPORT on RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: OUTCOME and RESEARCH)
  • Member of SATURN (Surveillance and Treatment Update on Renal Neoplasms Project)
  • Member of RECORD (Conservative Renal Surgery Register in Italy)

    International Fellowship

  • ORSI (Vittikuti Robotic Surgery Institute) Department Of Urology, Aalst, Belgium in the field of robotic surgery (2016)
  • S. Raffaele Institute, Vita e Salute University, Milan, Italy in the field of Laser Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (2010)

Editorial activities

  • Associate editor of World Journal of Clinical Urology
  • Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Urology
  • European Urology (reviewer)
  • European Urology Focus (reviewer)
  • Journal of Urology (reviewer)
  • British Journal of Urology International (reviewer)
  • European Radiology (reviewer)
  • Journal of Sexual Medicine (reviewer)
  • World Journal of Clinical Urology (reviewer)
  • BioMed Research International (reviewer)
  • Urolologic Oncology (reviewer)
  • Nature Urology (reviewer)
  • SRN Urology (reviewer)

Surgical experience

More than 6000 surgical procedures (more than 4000 as first operator, including (open surgery, laparoscopy, robotic, endo-urology) in the field of the treatment of prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, BPH and renal stones.

More than 1000 robotic  surgical procedures (robotic partial prostatectomy, partial nephrectomy, radical cyctecomy, pieloplasty, sacropexy).

 

Publications (scopus data at 11-2021)

299 publications on Pubmed

H-index: 39 (Scopus)