RANCESCO
ICURELLO
Degree in Physics (Electronics and Cybernetics), with many years of experience (from 1978) in Medical
Informatics, Telemedicine, e-Health and statistical software for data analysis in epidemiology and biomedicine.
He is president of IITM (International Institute of Tele-Medicine) / Italian Association of Telemedicine and
Medical Informatics (@ITIM).
From 1999 till now he is professor of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine at University of Milan-Bicocca.
From 2007 to 2012 professor of Ontology and its applications at University of Insubria (Como).
From 1996 to 1999 professor of Electronic Documents at University of Macerata. From 1984 to 2001 professor of Informatics applied in Medicine and Statistical Software at University of Milan.
From 2004 to 2014 he had been Coordinator of Technological University Centre of Desio (MB).
Since 2000 to 2012, he was referent for Telemedicine in the Scientific and Technological Cooperation of
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He was expert in health informatics and head of operating unit (2001-2008) at the Health General
Directorate (Research and Innovation Office) of Lombardia Region.
For about 10 years (1990-1999) he had been Head of a Research Operating Unit of Medical Informatics at
Institute of Biomedical Technologies at National Council of Research in Milan.
For 5 years (1996-2000) he was director of Informatics Service at National Institute of Neurology in Milan.
He also worked as responsible of medical informatics and data analysis in hospitals as Policlinic of Milan,
Desio Hospital.
From 1978 to 1986 he was designer, developer and responsible at Desio Hospital of epidemiological medical information system in the frame of the health and epidemiologic surveillance program of population involved in the dioxin environment disaster in the Seveso city area (at north of Milan).
His activity consists on studies and designs of Health/Hospital Information Systems, computerization of medical record and clinical database, statistical software applications and artificial intelligence techniques in bio-medicine (expert systems, artificial neural networks, etc.), Telemedicine systems, telecare services, web sites and portals in medical applications.
He is responsible of several research projects on Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, involved in Italian,
European and International R&D Programmes.
He is author of around 400 publications (national and international) in Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and software for data analysis and mining, artificial neural networks, Neuroinformatics and Artificial
Intelligence, knowledge management and ontology.
Prof. Francesco Sicurello