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Department of Biomedical Sciences

The Department is the University body that performs the functions of organising and coordinating teaching and learning activities, as well as scientific research. The Department’s main objective is the full integration of activities related to research, teaching and learning, and third mission and healthcare. It sees the integration of these activities as an important opportunity to foster the development of new professional profiles in the scientific and clinical fields.

The Department is staffed by full and Associate Professors, Untenured Professors appointed pursuant to Law 230/2005, Tenured University Researchers and Fixed-term Researchers in service at the time the department was established.

The Department of Biomedical Sciences includes all degree programmes, residency schools, PhD programmes, first and second level specialised master programmes run by the University.

The Department of Biomedical Sciences’ institutional missions are:

Department Director

  • Director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Deputy Prorector, Delegate for teaching and learning activities at Humanitas University
  • Full Professor of Gastroenterology at Humanitas University

Alessio Aghemo

Full Professor Gastroenterologia
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Department Committee

The Department Committee is the department’s executive body and assists the Director in carrying out assigned tasks.

The department committee is made up of:

Prof. Alessio Michele Goffredo Aghemo – Director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences
Prof.ssa Rosanna Asselta – Deputy Director of the Department  and Coordinator of the PhD programme in Data Science in Medicine (DASME)
Prof.ssa Isabella Barajon – Head of the 6-year degree programme in Medicine & Surgery
Prof. Maurizio Cecconi – Deputy head of the MEDTEC 6-year degree programme in Medicine & Surgery and Residency Schools Representative
Prof.ssa Valeria Cento – Head of the degree programme in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques
Prof. Marco Francone – Head of the degree programme in Medical Radiology Techniques
Prof. Roberto Gatti – Head of the degree programme in Physiotherapy
Prof. Andrea Gerardo Antonio Lania – Clinical PhD Programme Coordinator
Prof.ssa Ana Lleo de Nalda – Head of the undergraduate and postgraduate  degree programmes in Nursing
Prof.ssa Maria Rescigno – Coordinator of the PhD programme in Molecular and Experimental Medicine (MEM)

The Committee is supplemented by departmental delegates and area coordinators  nominated by the Director:

Prof. Roberto Rusconi – Presidente della Commissione Paritetica Docenti – Studenti
Prof. Stefano Aliberti – Rector’s Delegate for the Third Mission
Prof. Carmelo Carlo-Stella – Professors and Researchers’ Representative on the Board of Directors
Prof. Gianluigi Condorelli – Full professor
Prof.ssa Cecilia Garlanda – Coordinator for the DEI – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Department Working Group
Prof.ssa Simona Lodato – Associate professor
Prof.ssa Michela Matteoli – Full professor
Prof. Gherardo Mazziotti – Rectors Delegate for Quality and Chair of the Quality Assurance Unit
Dott.ssa Silvia Oldani – Head of the Office for Medical Education (OME)
Dott.ssa Giulia Soldà – Erasmus Coordinator
Prof. Guido Torzilli – Full professor
Prof. Holger Schunemann – Rector’s Delegate for Internationalisation

Joint Teaching Staff – Student Committee

The Joint Teaching Staff Student – Committee is a Department body and is made up of an equal number of teaching staff members and students:

  • Prof. Roberto Rusconi (Chair of the Joint Teaching- Student Committee)
  • Prof. Michele Bartoletti
  • Dr Marta Calatroni
  • Prof. Ferdinando Cananzi
  • Prof. Mattia Loppini
  • Dr Flavio Ronzoni
  • Prof. Silvia Uccella
  • Student Andrea Beghè (degree programme board, MSN)
  • Student Jessica Carrera (degree programme board, Physiotherapy)
  • Student Francesco Farina (degree programme board, MEDTEC School)
  • Student Anna Nardello (degree programme board, MEDTEC School)
  • Student Simone Nicoli (degree programme board, Nursing – Bergamo)
  • Student Bianca Fidato (degree programme board, Nursing – Pieve Emanuele)
  • Student Marta Pagano (degree programme board, Medicine)
  • Student Sofia Poggi Longostrevi (degree programme board, Medicine)
  • Student Denise Debora Rodriguez Medrano (degree programme board, Nursing – Castellanza)

The Joint Teaching- Student Committee evaluates:

  • the expected learning outcomes and the competencies necessary to fulfil employment prospects
  • the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activity, teaching and examination methods, equipment, and the logistics system
  • the effectiveness of remedial actions and the transparency of the information published about the degree programmes

Working Groups

The Department Director sets up working groups and appoints coordinators for areas of specific interest.

DEI – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – working group:

Postgraduate Training Working Group:

VQR 2020-2024 Working Group:

Regulations

The Department of Biomedical Sciences Regulations govern its functioning and main objectives.

Teaching Staff

Meet the teaching staff of Humanitas University.

HUMANITAS GROUP

Humanitas is a highly specialized Hospital, Research and Teaching Center. Built around centers for the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular, neurological and orthopedic disease – together with an Ophthalmic Center and a Fertility Center – Humanitas also operates a highly specialised Emergency Department.