Meet the Team

Curriculum Vitae
(summary biography included in "Who's Who in the world" annal since 1988)

Professor Marotta

Born on January 15, 1957 in Augusta (SR) Italy
Family: wife graduated in Law from University of Milan, until 1997 has run for almost 10 years a private office of business accounting & labour consulting. I have two daughters, Katherine and Carole.
Address: via Pisanello, 4 20146 Milano
Criminal Record: no past or ongoing sue for law infringements

1981	Graduation from Medical School, Catania University, Italy with highest marks cum Laude.
1981-1982	University of Chicago, Visiting Fellow in Gastroenterology
1983-1986	University of Cape-Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Clinical and Research Registrar in Gastroenterology (initial scholarship granted by the italian Ministry of Education after a nationwide selection)
1986	Completing the Post-Graduate School in Gastroenterology, University of Catania, Italy with highest marks cum Laude.
1986-1988	University of Hirosaki, Japan, Dept of Surgery. PH.D. course granted after a nationwide joint selection from the italian Ministry of Education and the Japanese Ministry of Education and following a Japanese Language Proficiency course at Tohoku University-Sendai, Japan. At the end of the experimental studies (Superoxide anion generation and role of macrophage oxidative burst in several models of acute pancreatitis) granted a PhD as the only one obtained in the medical field in Japan by an italian after the post-war period.
1988-1990	National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Fellowship granted (only 1 in Italy) by the Japanese Ministry of Science & Technology. Studies on pancreatic cancer.
1991-1998	Chief Consultant in Gastroenterology, S. Anna Hospital, Como, Italy
1998-	Consultant Endoscopy Unit, S. Giuseppe Hosp., Milano, Italy

Appointments:

Consulting Professor, WHO-affiliated Center for Biotechnology, Traditional Medicine Post-Graduate School, Dept. of Anatomy, University of Milano, Italy.
Consultino Professor of BioGerontology, Urology Dept., University of Pavia
Visiting Professor at major Japanese Institutions (Cancer Center-Tokyo, Nagoya
University, Aichi Cancer Center, Fujita University, Matsumoto University, National Cancer Center East, Chiba, International Medical Center of Japan, Jikei University-Tokyo, Cancer Center Institute-Kanazawa, Shiga University-Otsu etc.)
Consultant-in-charge for Lombardia region of Chronic Pancreatitis Project Group.
Referee and Editorial Board Member of a number of european, asian and Middle-East journals.
Advisor for Eastern Countries of JOP, the first electonic peer-reviewed journal of Pancreatology (www.joplink.net).
Organizing President of the 25th Annual meeting of the Italian Association of Pancreatology 2001.
International Consultant of Chinese Society of Pancreatology (in progress)
Consultant in charge of the italian counterpart of the Italy-Japan Exchange Research Project in Pancreatology (in progress)
Member of several foundation and research institutes of aging (Am. Soc. Healthy Aging, Los Angeles-Gerontology Res. Group, Am. Acad. AntiAging Medicine, Japan Biomedical Gerontology, Inst. Nutrition and Health etc.)
Member of the European Federation of Biotechnology and of the International Society Study of Xenobiotics.

Awards:

1989	Honour Medal from Hirosaki University Medical School, Hirosaki, Japan
1995	Best Young Investigator, Jap. Surgical Soc. Meeting, Nagoya, Japan
1996	Best Young Investigator (Pancreas), Ital GI Assoc. Meeting, Verona, Italy Selected european Delegate (for Italy) 1° Europe-Japan Gastroenterology Congress, Tokyo, Japan
1997	Silver Medal & Honour Mention Shinshu University; Japan Best Young Investigator, Asian-Pacific GI Congress, Yokohama, Japan
1998	Best Oral Presentation (Pancreas), Ital GI Assoc. Meeting, Turin, Italy
1999	Foreign Investigator Award (the only european), Digestive Disease Week-Japan, Hiroshima
2000	Travel Grant Award, IASL-APASL, Fukuoka, Japan Travel Grant Award - Japan Society of Hepatology, Tokyo, Japan
2001	Travel Grant Award - Japan Society of Hepatology, Shimonoseki, Japan Guest Speaker - Japan Complementary & Alternative Medicine meeting, Osaka, Japan. Received the Honour Medal from Osaka City University Medical school.
2002	Guest Speaker - 3rd Egyptian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Meeting, Hurghada Invited Guest Speaker, International Thalassemia Congress, Bangkok, Thailand Guest Chairperson, Japan Pancreas Society meeting, Sendai, Japan Guest Invited Speaker at International CAM Symposium, Kanazawa, Japan Abstract Award at the 19th Kumamoto Bioscience International Symposium, Kumamoto, Japan. "International Scientist of the Year 2003" from IBC, Cambridge, UK (in progress) Abstract Award at 1st JSH congress, Yamanashi, Japan Chairperson at the 19th Kumamoto Bioscience International Symposium, Kumamoto, Japan
2003	Invited Guest Speaker at VII International Congress on Integrated Bioscience, Mauritius Invited Guest Speaker at the Chinese Pancreatology meeting, Shanghai, China Invited Guest Speaker at the Egyptian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary meeting, Luxor, Egypt Chairperson at Asia-Oceania Gerontology congress, Tokyo, Japan Invited Speaker at Herb, Spice & Natural Products Conference, Guelph and Montreal, Canada
2004	Invited Chaiperson at IAP-JPS, July, Sendai, Japan Guest Invited Speaker at APASL (Asia-Pacific Ass. Study Liver) pending invitation at Saudi Arabia Gastro-Hepatology Congress

Publications:

85 full papers and over 265 scientific communications dealing with experimental and clinical gastroenterology in most of which as leading author.