Riccardo Polosa is full professor of Internal Medicine at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Catania, and an Italian Respiratory Physician, Clinical Immunologist, Allergist and Rheumatologist.
He is actively involved in smoking prevention and cessation. Indeed, he established the first Sicilian center for smoking cessation at the University of Catania in 2002.
In 2003, he founded the Italian Antismoking Association (LIAF), which he directed for 5 years.
In 2018, Polosa established, together with 38 academics, the Center of Excellence for the acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR) at the University of Catania, a unique multi-disciplinary research centre with the mission to reduce health impacts and deaths from smoking, locally and globally.
In the area of in tobacco control and prevention, he has been the most prolific author in the field of electronic cigarettes – according to a paper published in BMC Public Health. He is the lead author of ECLAT- first randomized controlled trial in the world about effectiveness and tolerability of e-cigarettes.
Giovanni Li Volti is full professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences of the University of Catania.
Soon after the graduation in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Catania in 2000, he attended the Department of Pharmacology at the New York Medical College, and in 2005 he obtained the title of PhD in Pediatric Sciences at the University of Catania.
In 2006, he was research fellow at the Department of Anatomy of the University of Brescia.
Prof. Li Volti has received numerous national and international awards for his research activity:
September 2002: Aventis Pharma New Investigator Award for U.S. Fellow
November 2002: Toscano-Scuderi Award (University of Catania, Italy)
August 2004: Young Investigator Travel Award at the European Society of Neurochemistry
September 2009: Travel award at the International Heme Oxygenase meeting, Miami (FL)
June 2010: Young Scientist Award FEBS meeting.
Department of Clinical and Experimental medicine
Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Advanced Technology
Francesco BASILE – Antonio Giuseppe BIONDI – Alberto BIANCHI – Antonio LONGO – Eugenio PEDULLÁ – Rosalia Maria LEONARDI – Giuseppe PALAZZO
Department of Law
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences
Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies
Department of Educational Sciences
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Brahim BENHAMOU (Cadi Ayyad University, Marocco)
Maria Luisa BRANDI (Dip. Scienze Biomediche, Sperimentali e Cliniche – Università di Firenze)
Davide CAMPAGNA (Dirigente medico – AOU Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele, Catania)
Pasquale CAPONNETTO (Docente a contratto di Psicologia clinica, Università di Catania)
Fabio CIBELLA (Istituto per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione Biomedica IRIB del CNR – Palermo)
Jennifer DIPIAZZA (City University of New York, USA)
Emmanuele Angelo Francesco JANNINI (Dip. Medicina dei Sistemi – Università Roma Tor Vergata)
Mario MALERBA (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Karin Helen O’LEARY (PhD in Sociologia della University of Victoria, Canada)
Giuseppe RONSISVALLE (Università di Catania – in quiescenza)
Marco TATULLO (Tecnologica Research Institute e Marrelli Health – Crotone)
Vladislav VOLAREVIC (Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Serbia)
CoEHAR includes the local “Center for Tobacco Prevention and treatment” and a Clinical Research Organization, with their laboratories of microbiology and molecular biology.
CoEHAR actions on advocacy, training and education, awareness campaigns, are supported by the Italian Anti-Smoking League, LIAF (Lega Italiana Anti Fumo) and ECLAT, a spin-off of the University of Catania.
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