Stefano Nava

 

PERSONAL DATA

 

- Date of birth:          7 november 1956

- Place of birth:        Crema ( CR )

- Cityzenship:               italian

- Spoken languages:       English  ( very good ), French  ( good ),

                                      Spanish  ( fair ).

 

                 

                                               EDUCATION

 

 

-          Degree in Medicine, Pavia University, 1982

-          Specialty in Pulmonary Disease, Pavia University, 1987

-          Specialty in Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, Pavia University, 1993

 -  Post-graduate research fellow in Pulmonary Medicine

    Royal Victoria Hopital and  Meakins-Christie Labs, McGill University

    Montreal, Canada (september 1985- september  1988 )

-   Visiting professor University of Leuven, Belgium (march-april 2003)

-          Full time physician Fondazione S.Maugeri, Montescano (1988-1993)

-          Head Pulmonary Rehabilitation program Fondazione S.Maugeri, Montescano (1993-april 200)

-          Head Respiratory Intensive Care Unit Fondazione S.Maugeri, Pavia (april 200 – october 2001)

-          Chief of the Respiratory Unit (including the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit october 2001- October 2010)

-          - Visiting professor New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, USA (June 2006- December 2006)

-          Chief of the Respiratory and Critical Care Unit (November 2010- December 2012)

-          Full time professor of Respiratory Disease, Bologna University and Chief of the Respiratory and Critical Care Unit (November 2010-up-to-date)

 

                      

                                                    SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

 

 

-          Assistant Professor Pulmonary Disease, Pavia University (1991 to date)

-          Assistant Professor Pulmonary Disease, Ferrara University (1996-2001)

-          Assistant Professor, Intensive Care Medicine, Pavia University (1999 to date)

-          Assistant Professor Pulmonary Disease, Catania University (2006 to 2012)

-           Full Time Professor of Respiratory Diseases (December 2012 up to date)

 

 

  Referee of the following journals:

JAMA

American Journal Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

The Lancet

European Respiratory Journal 

American Journal of Medicine

Canadian Medical Journal

Chest

Anesthesia & Analgesia

Thorax

Intensive Care Medicine Monaldi Archives of Chest Disesese

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Respiratory Care

Respiration.

Respiratory Medicine

Critical Care Medicine

Critical Care

Journal of Critical Care

American Journal of Transplantation

 

 

-          Editorial Board:  Intensive Care Medicine,  Breathe, Italian Journal of Occupation Disease, Respiratory Care, Annals of Respiratory Medicine, Pulmonology

-          Advisory Board= Thorax (former)  Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease and Rivista AIPO (Italian Societ of Pulmonologists).

-          Secretary of the group  “Non-invasive ventilatory support”  European Respiratory Society (1998-2000)

-          Chairman of the group  “Non-invasive ventilatory support”  European Respiratory Society (2000-2003)

-          Secretary of the Intensive Care Assembly of the ERS and member of the European respiratory School, 2003-2006

-          Head of the Intensive Care Assembly of the ERS (2007)

-          Member of the ERS Executive Committee (2007)

-          Member since 2000 of the Program Committeee of the American Thoracic Society Critical Care Assembly

-          Chairman of Scientific Program ATS for CC  (-2009)

-          Member of the Long Planning Committee of the American Thoracic Society (2009-2011)

-          Chairman of the Post-Graduate Courses program at the ERS

-          Member of the Faculty of 1000 Medicine

 

 

SEMINARS

 

Invited speaker  or chairperson  of 327  meetings, 196 of those internationals

In particular:

13      American Thoracic Society

29    European Respiratory Society

4      American College of Chest Physician

6   European Society of Critical Care Medicine

3      British Thoracic Society

3     American Respiratory Care

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIELDS of CLINICAL and SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS 

 

-          Mechanical ventilation (including non-invasive)

-          COPD exacerbation

-          Weaning from mechanical ventilation

-    Organisation and economical analysis of Respiratory Intensive Care Unit

-      Respiratory muscle   (EMG, electrical stimulation of the diaphragm, mechanics) 

-          Pharmacology of the “acute” patient

-          Pulmonary Rehabilitation

-          Ethics

 

 

FIELDS of INTEREST OUTSIDES MEDICINE and HOBBIES

 

-          Travel and Geography

-          History

-          Music (rock of the 70' and Operas)

-          Reading (English and North American writers)

-          Movies (European movies and some “minor North Americans” i.e. Sundance Festival)

-          Sky (1975-1982 I have raced for the Pavia University team)

-          Football ( called soccer in the US !)

 

 PUBBLICATIONS

H index according to Scopus 68. 

N.32 of the clinical sciences chapter in the TOP 100 Scientists

 

 

ü        n.  253 International journals with peer-review system (  

                  181  as first Author or as  “senjor”)

 

ü       n.  31     national journals

 

ü       n.  181    abstracts international journals

 

ü       n. 43     abstracts national journals

 

ü       n.  16    book chapters in English

 

ü       n. 13  book chapters in Italian

 

ü       n. 2      whole books in Italian

 

    n. 3 books in English (editor)