Born: Agrigento (Italy), August 14, 1973
Academic
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High school diploma in Liceo
Scientifico "P. Gobetti" (science), Florence (Italy), 1992
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Visiting Scholar, Sheffield Hallam University,
Sheffield (UK), 1996 - 1997
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MSc in Statistics and
Economics (110/110), University of Florence
(Italy), on July 7, 1998.
Thesis in Mathematical Statistics, titled "Statistical forensic
identification via DNA profiling: a Bayesian approach" supervised by
Prof. Fabio Corradi
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Ph.D. student in Applied
Statistics, 2002 - 2004
Post University
Academic
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Research Fellow, University of Siena (Italy), 2000 -
2002
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Workshop on "Advanced
Methods for Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation", Centre of Health Economics,
University of York, York (UK), 2000
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Courses in "Bayesian hierarchical
models and Spatial epidemiology", Department of Epidemiology, Imperial
College, London, (UK), 2001
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Since 2001, Research assistant for
Prof. Fabio Pammolli (Economics and Industrial Organization), for Prof. Fabio
Corradi (Statistics) and for Prof. Franco Polverini (Statistics)
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Visiting Scholar @ POPI
(Program On Pharmaceutical Industry) - MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA (USA), 2003 - 2005
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Honorary Lecturer, London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine (UK), since May 2005
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Contract Professor of Statistical Methods
for Health Economics Evaluation, University of
Milan Bicocca (Italy), since February 2005
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Lecturer in Biostatistics, University of
Milan Bicocca (Italy), since October 2007
Research
Interests
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Applied Bayesian Statistical
modelling in Health Economics
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Pharmacoeconomics Evaluations
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Statistical topics in technology
assessment in Health Care
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Bayesian modelling for causal
inference
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Philosophy and history of statistics
Professional
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Assistant in the "Student
Accomodation Service", Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK), 1996
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Consultant for the design of the
web site www.statistica.it for Cestat sas, statistical elaborations, Florence (Italy), 2000
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Research Assistant at University of Siena (Italy) within
the EPRIS project for the economic and
epidemiological analysis of pharmaceutical system, 1999-2001
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Consultant for Theron Business Consulting, London (UK), in the comparative analysis of the R&D process in
pharmaceutical companies, 2000
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Consultant for Bayer spa Italy, Milan (Italy) -
Economic analysis of Cardioaspirin, 2001
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Consultant for Chiron Italy, Siena (Italy) - Economic analysis of Influenza vaccination, 2002 - 2004
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Consultant for GlaxoSmithKline Italy,
Verona (Italy) - Economic analysis of antiHIV treatments within the
I.CO.NA. project, 2003 - 2004
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Consultant for Novartis Italy,
Origgio (Varese, Italy) - Economic analysis of the treatment of osteoporosis
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Research Fellow at the CERM Foundation (Economic Analysis of Competitiveness and Market Regulation), Rome
(Italy), since 2003
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Member of the Health Economics
Scientific Advisory Board of Mapi Values, Boston, MA (USA), since 2003
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Member of the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), since 2004
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Member of the American Statistical Association
(ASA), since 2004
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Member of the Royal Statistical Society, since 2006
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Member of the Society for Medical Decision Making, since 2006
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Member of the Italian Society for Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology, since 2007