EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION ON HEALTH

Behavioural neurologist with a PhD in neuroscience, she currently manages the Language and Neurobiology Laboratory at MAC – Memory and Aging Center at the University of San Francisco California, where she is a Professor. Her work investigates the neural basis of higher cognitive functions such as language and memory. She has extensive experience in neurology and neuroscience and in the use of behavioural paradigms and neuroimaging to study language symptoms and their neural mechanisms.

A physician specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pelvic Surgery. He was Director of the Obstetrics and Gynaecological Clinic at the University of Brescia for many years. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the same university, where he was also Rector from 2010 to 2016, and Adjunct Professor at Yale School of Medicine. He was President of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) from 2009 to 2015 and representative of the Italian Government in Brussels for innovative programmes for active and healthy ageing.

An organisational psychologist with psycho-socio-analytical training, as well as founding member and former president of Ariele. After a considerable amount of experience in the areas of training, organisational development and personnel management, he became Adjunct Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he works as an expert in the subject.

Bertuzzi has been Chief Executive Officer of the American Society for Microbiology - ASM since 2015, one of the largest international scientific organisations in the field of Life Sciences, with over 30,000 members and activities in 122 countries. Its mission is to promote and advance microbiology. Recently, he guided the efforts of the ASM in dealing with the pandemic, working directly with the White House COVID-19 Task Force, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) to increase access to diagnostic tools for coronavirus. He works intensively as an author and science communicator and has gained extensive policy experience as Senior Scientific Executive at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the Office of the NIH Director. He led negotiations with the EU on reciprocal investments between the NIH and EU on behalf of the US government and worked with the White House during the Obama administration to optimise the benefits of investments in scientific research.

After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan and doing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University in Providence, USA, in 1981 Ferrari joined the IRCCS Foundation Cancer Institute in Milan as a Contract Researcher. Over the years, she has taken on increasing responsibility, in 2018 becoming Acting Director of the S.C. Day Hospital/Cancer Outpatient Unit, where, among her other roles, she manages and supervises the Medical Day Hospital oncohaematology department for conventional and experimental treatments, with over 25,000 patients looked after every year. A lecturer at the University of Milan from 2005 to 2017, she authored and co-authored over 90 scientific publications, book chapters and abstracts.