Born in Genoa, Italy, 06.11.1949
Graduated in Medicine at the University of Genoa in 1975 ; Board certified in Radiology in 1979
Staff Radiologist, at the Hospital San Martino”, Genoa, in 1981
Professor in Radiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Genoa since 1994.
Chair of one of the Radiology units of the Hospital San Martino, Genoa, since the same year.
Chair of the Department of Radiology of the whole Hospital from January 2004 to September 2011.
Started working in diagnostic ultrasound in 1975 and in Doppler techniques since 1984.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB) in the years 1987 – 1989, has been President of the same Society in the 1995-1997 period.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM) from 1996 to 2000.
At present, is President of the Ultrasound Section of the same Society.
Member of the Board of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) from 2000, has been president from 2004 to 2006.
Chairman of the Working Group on Ultrasound of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) since March 2009 and of the Communication and International Relations Committee of the same ESR since March 2011.
Co-chairman of the Categorical Course on Ultrasound held at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna in 2001-2002 and of the “Hands-on” Workshops on Musculoskeletal US held at ECR in the following four years.
Has been chairman of the combined meeting of ESUR and SUR (Society of Uroradiology) in Genoa in 2002.
Has published 187 papers (as per PubMed ) and a number of chapters on italian and international textbooks. Most papers deal with diagnostic imaging using ultrasound and Doppler techniques and with topics about the genito-urinary system, with special attention to renal and testicular diseases.