Curriculum vitae
Mauro Minelli
Curriculum Vitae
University Professor-in-charge in the following disciplinary sectors:
Med/42 – General and Applied Hygiene
Med/44 – Occupational Medicine
Physician, Specialist in Allergology and Clinical Immunology
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Professional Qualifications
• Degree with full marks in Medicine and Surgery, with an experimental dissertation in Respiratory Physiopathology, University of Bari,
1986.
• Qualification for the exercise of the medical profession, University of Bari, 1986.
• Specialization in Allergology and Clinical Immunology with full marks, with an experimental dissertation on “Atopic Dermatitis”,
University of Bari, 1990.
• Further Specialization in Paediatric Immunology and Allergology, University of Bari, 1991.
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Professional Curriculum
Mauro Minelli is director of the IMID Centre, a Care Unit for the treatment of immune-mediated disorders that he himself planned, supporting with firm belief its feasibility, promoting its establishment, which he achieved in 2008, when the Unit was implemented within the Hospital “San Pio di Petralcina”, Campi Salentina (Local Health Authority, ASL-LE).
He is Professor-in-charge at the University of Salento, Lecce, where he teaches Occupational Medicine (Italian disciplinary area Med/44), for the students of various courses of the Faculty of Sciences of Education.
Within the courses of the same Faculty, he is also in charge of a series of integrative lectures on the theme “Chronic inflammatory pathologies: connections of cause and effect between polluting agents and diseases”, within the teaching of General and Applied Hygiene (Italian disciplinary area Med/42).
As a Professor-in-charge at the Telematic University “Pegaso”, he teaches Environment Hygiene (disciplinary area Med/42) within the course of studies in Sciences of Education, Faculty of Humane Sciences.
During his professional career, started in 1987, he has long collaborated with the Chair of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Bari, for his competence in performing educative as well as scientific activities.
The output of his educative activity unfolds through a series of congressional events, organized in direct collaboration with the Institute of Allergology and Clinical Immunology of the University of Bari, headed by Prof. Alfredo Tursi, in the following years:
1988 – Interdisciplinary Conference on immuno-allergic diseases “Atypical complex-diagnosis syndromes” – Lecce December 3rd 1988;
1993 – Meeting on the theme “Environment and quality of life” – Santa Cesarea Terme, April 1st-3rd 1993;
1996 – Congress on “Habitat and Health: socio-sanitary and technical-environmental aspects”, Gallipoli, April 29th 1996;
1997 – Congress on “Habitat ’97, or, controversial aspects of human living”, Lecce, December 4th-6th 1997;
2004 – 1st Theoretical-practical updating course in Clinical Allergology, Lecce, April 23rd-24th, 2004;
2005 – 2nd Theoretical-practical updating course in Clinical Allergology, Lecce, May 20th-21st 2005.
His scientific activity has involved diverse collaborations through updating articles and research reports. For one of this latter, “Integrated program of allergologic screening of school-age children”, the Medical Association of the Province of Lecce awarded him a scholarship for the year 1990. The research was conducted in agreement with the former Local Health Authority USL LE/2 of Campi Salentina (in Salento Medico – 1993, N. 8-9, year XVI:19-21).
From 1991 through 1995, he coordinated the activity of Community Allergology at the Local Health Units of Poggiardo (ex USL LE/9) and Maglie (ex USL LE/8).
From 1992 to 1996, he was member-elect within the Executive Board of the Italian Association of Aerobiology (AIA), chairing its Interregional Section “Apulia-Lucania” from 1998 to 2000.
He has also coordinated a National Research Group which, on behalf of the Italian Association of Aerobiology, conducted for two years (1995-1997) the ‘polycentric’ study, “Annual biological rhythm of allergenic mites”. The study was chiefly aimed at assessing the impact of airborne biologic pollutants indoors (in Italian Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1997, N.4, Vol.7, p.18-22).
From 1996 to 1999 he planned and coordinated the triennial research protocol “Integrated system of outdoor and indoor environmental monitoring, and assessment of the impact of exposition to biologic pollutants on the population of the Salento area”, conducted on behalf of the Board of Lecce Province, under the aegis of the Italian Association of Aerobiology (in Salento Medico, 1999, N. 1-2-3-, Vol. XXII:19-26).
In 1997, he got the certificate of participation in the Master, “Contemporary management of patients with respiratory diseases”, held in June 1997, at Mcmaster University – Department of Medicine Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He also got a certificate of participation in the Master “Globalization and health services”, issued at the end of the academic year 2003-2004, by the Research Centre for Institution Building and Development – University of Urbino, with lectures of advanced education in the area of organization and management of health-care services.
In 2001 he promoted and coordinated the Unit of Local Research within a biennial project on the theme, “Monitoring of environment/air in the Province of Lecce and assessment of possible clinical correlations of the impact of polluting agents on the population exposed”.
In 2003 he joined, as a scientific advisor, the operative Unit which promoted the research project, “Electromagnetic Pollution and Impact on Health: Between clinical assessment and possible preventive measures”, whose aim was to draw an expositive map of the Salento territory vs. electromagnetic fields.
In 2004 he created, then promoting its ensuing implementation, the Outpatient Surgery for Allergology and Clinical Immunology, attached to the Operative Unit of Internal Medicine of the Hospital facilities at Campi Salentina, which has since produced medical activities in substantiated exponential growth, through professional services and targeted hospitalization.
The centre for Allergology and Clinical Immunology at the Hospital of Campi Salentina has often been included in relevant national polycentric inquiries, among which the observational study “Poli S.M.A.I.L.” (in “Allergy” 62 (suppl. 83): 167-551, Journal Compilation 2007 – abstract 666), conducted in collaboration with Stallergenes Italia, in order to study the “allergic march” in polysensitized patients treated with immunotherapy. The Centre has produced, among many others, the observational study, “Clinical applications of genetics in allergology. The crucial role of HLA DQ2 and DQ8 haplotypes in the effectiveness of immunotherapy”, endorsed by the Ethical Committee of Lecce Health Authority. (in Gluten Sensitivity: ruolo della dieta nell’efficacia dell’immunoterapia [Gluten Sensitivity: the dietary role in the effectiveness of immunotherapy], by Laura De Santos, dissertation for the degree in Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Biology, University of Salento, academic year 2008/2009).
Elective relevance has, moreover, been given – together with enlarged strategic qualified partnership – to the definition of diagnostic, therapeutic and advanced health-care protocols in the field of systemic nickel allergopathies (SNAS: Systemic Nickel Allergy Syndrome) (in Notiziario Allergologico, Vol. 24, N. 1-2, March-June 2006, pp. 44-46; in International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology, 2005, Vol. 18, N. 4(S), pp.19-20; in Atti 24° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di of Allergologia e Immunologia Clinica, Rome, May 4th-7th 2005; in Rev Port Immunoallergologia, 2008, 16 (2): 135-147). Significantly, in relation to the same applicative field, the IMID Centre, Campi Salentina, has been lately included in the first prospect double-blind study controlled with placebo, which has the aim to assess “the clinical effectiveness and tolerability in use of a hypo-sensitizing oral therapy with nickel sulphate in patients with SNAS (Systemic Nickel Allergy Syndrome)”.
In agreement with the IMID Association (of which he is scientific advisor) he has implemented a project of strategic collaboration with the USP (University for Development and Peace, Bari), with the primary objective to highlight and clarify epidemiologic observations, as well as to assess the overall impact of immune-mediated chronic inflammatory diseases on both society and health-care system.
He has planned and now coordinates a Research Group which, on behalf of the Local Health Authority of Lecce, is committed to follow the medical protocol, “Assessment of the genotype/phenotype condition related to the response to drugs in patients with a DHR or a ADR picture”. The study, conducted in agreement with the Genetics Laboratory of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSteBa), University of Salento, has the purpose to identify the pharmacological routes which may be more appropriate for patients who show clinical pictures of Severe Hypersensitiveness (DHR) or, anyhow, Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR).
He has been director of the Clinical Immunology Day Service, implemented by the Local Health Authority of Montalbano Jonico (ex Local Health Authority ASL MT/5), at whose Medical Facilities (at Policoro and Stigliano) he worked as an advisor from 2007 to 2009.
Since December 2008 he has been director of the IMID Centre, a Simple Operative Unit attached to the UOC (Complex Operative Unit) of Internal Medicine at the Hospital “San Pio di Petralcina”, Campi Salentina, committed to the clinical framing and treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
He has supported and progressively implemented activities of scientific divulgation and promotion of the Multidisciplinary Model “IMID” in applicative protocols of Basic Clinical Immunology, through thematic conferences and lectures acknowledged by the Ministry of Health, in accordance with the current regulations on Continuing Education in Medicine.
Among the most significant events:
CORSO DI AGGGIORNAMENTO TEORICO PRATICO IN ALLERGOLOGIA CLINICA
“LUCI ED OMBRE IN IMMUNOLOGIA”
[THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL UPDATING COURSE IN CLINICAL ALLERGOLOGY LIGHT AND DARKNESS IN IMMUNOLOGY]
Conference-Course for Physicians, Nurses and Sanitary Technicians
1st Module, Lecce, June 30th 2006
2nd Module, Lecce, July 14th 2006
LA CLINICA DELLE MALATTIE INFIAMMATORIE CRONICHE IMMUNOMEDIATE
[MEDICINE OF CHRONIC IMMUNE-MEDIATED INFLAMMATORY DISEASES]
Course of Medical Assistance Training – ASL LE/1 (Local Health Authority, Lecce)
Lecce, December 11th -12th -13th 2006
MALATTIE CRONICHE: PERCHE’ I RITARDI NON DIVENTINO EMERGENZA
[CHRONIC DESEASES: SO THAT DELAYS MAY NOT BECOME EMERGENCIES]
South-Italy Convention on the Policies of Chronicity
In collaboration with “CittadinanzAttiva – Tribunale per I diritti dei Malati” (ActiveCitizenship – Court for the Rights of the Sick), Apulia.
Lecce, March 11th 2007
RIVOLUZIONE “IMID”: IMMUNOLOGIA E MIGLIORE TERAPIA PER LE MALATTIE INFIAMMATORIE CRONICHE NELL’OSPEDALE DEL 3° MILLENNIO
[THE “IMID” REVOLUTION: IMMUNOLOGY AND A BETTER THERAPY IN CHRONIC INFLAMATORY DISEASES FOR A THIRD-MILLENNIUM HOSPITAL]
In collaboration with “CittadinanzAttiva – Tribunale per I diritti dei Malati” (ActiveCitizenship – Court for the Rights of the Sick), Basilicata.
Regional Health Board of Basilicata ANCI Basilicata – Local Health Authority USL MT/5
Marconia, MT, November 16th 2007
LA CLINICA DELLE MALATTIE INFIAMMATORIE CRONICHE IMMUNOMEDIATE
APPROCCIO INTEGRATO BELLA BUONA PRASSI DELLA PLURIDISCIPLINARIETA’
[MEDICINE OF CHRONIC IMMUNE-MEDIATED INFLAMMATORY DISEASES INTEGRATED APPROACH TO GOOD PRACTICES IN MULTIDISCIPLINARITY]
Conference-Course for Physicians, Nurses and Medical Technicians
Scanzano Jonico, MT, June 27th-28th 2008.
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Forthcoming event:
IMID Scientific Biennial 2010 – 6th Edition
THE ENVIRONMENT AND ITS RELATED DISEASES
BODY UNDER SIEGE: INFLAMMATION, CARCINOGENESIS, ALLERGY AND AUTOIMMUNITY
Lecce, March 3rd-6th 2010
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He is a founding member of the AISAI (Italian Association of Allergy and Immunology Specialists), of which he was appointed National Vice-President in 2008.
He has founded and directed the scientific quarterly of nation-wide circulation, South Immunology Journal, acknowledged and reviewed in scientific publications in the field. Seven issues of the journal have been published so far.
Since 2009, he has been director of the publication IMID Medical Journal (registered at the Press Registry of Lecce Court, ISSN 2036-2009) – also founded by him – the official organ of the AISAI (Italian Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Specialists). He publishes original scientific works dealing with the comprehension and practice of the subject “allergology and clinical immunology”, with a particular concern for the aetiological, pathogenic, clinical and therapeutic framing of immune-mediated disorders.
During the years 1996-99, he collaborated, with occasional lectures, with the School of Specialization in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Messina, and, since December 2006, he has collaborated with the post-graduate School of Specialization in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Tirana.
He teaches at the School of Counseling, Lecce, a school with a systemic-relational stance, promoted by the Body of Education ADSUM and acknowledged by the Italian Counseling Society (SIC).
His biography is included in the seventh edition of Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, the international publication, which gathers the most representative figures in the professional field of health-care and medical research.
His professional activity has been the object of two degree dissertations in Bio-technical Sciences which he also co-examined at the University of Salento. He has often attracted the attention of both public and private media. Among his most significant participation in TV programs: “TG2-Medicina 33” (RAI 2), “Cominciamo bene” (RAI 3), and “Il Graffio” (Telenorba).
He is the author of about 70 scientific publications among monographs, reviews, editorials, addresses and posters in congress proceedings, chapters of books, and articles published in scientific journals.
He has delivered a number of lectures in national and international scientific conferences, focusing his attention on various themes of immune-allergologic interest.
During his professional activity, he has progressively acquired accredited specific education and updating thanks to his participation in seminars and meetings promoted by the leading national and international Scientific Societies concerning the subject of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (SIAIC, AIA, IAA, AAITO, EAACI, ICACI, ERS, AAAAI, IAACI).
From 1999 to 2001 he occupied the position of Town Councilor in charge of Social Policies, Education, Youth Policies, Sports and Health.
In January 2000 he was appointed representative at the Union of Italian Provinces as a permanent member, within the Unified Conference for the Council addressing the problems of foreign immigrants and their families.
Honors: in June 2007, the Commission of Honor, chaired by the Rector of the University of Salento awarded him the Barocco Prize “Terra del Sole Award 2007”, for his remarkable professional merits.