The appointment was approved during today's meeting of the Board of Directors. Greetings from the outgoing Rector, Prof. Andrea Onetti Muda, who will remain a professor at the University. Greetings and thanks from the President to both UCBM, Felice Barela
Rome, 20 July 2017 – The Board of Directors of theCampus Bio-Medico University of Rome approved the appointment of prof. Raffaele Calabrò as the new Rector of the University. The cardiologist and former parliamentarian will take office on September 28st. After his appointment a few weeks ago, Prof. Calabrò waited for the yes of the Chamber of Deputies, last June , to be able to accept the position and have the official green light for the appointment.
“I would like to thank the University Board of Directors which, a few months before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University, has entrusted me with this important task – he saidchiarato the professor calabrò – I return with enthusiasm to that academic world from which I come and which has given me so much satisfaction. L'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma it is a young institution but with solid roots and an important history: today it is a nationally recognized reality both for its degree courses, for its scientific research, and for the quality of its Polyclinic. I am convinced that it is a place where young people can become aware adults, as well as the professionals of tomorrow. From st September – concludes the new Rector calabrò – I will make my experience available to students and the whole institution, with the aim of making this university an increasingly well-known and appreciated reality”.
The first to wish Prof. Calabrò was the outgoing Rector, prof. Andrea Onetti Muda, who will take on the role of Director of the Laboratory Department of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome. “I leave the rectorship in the hands of Raffaele Calabrò, to whom I send my heartfelt wishes for good work, with the awareness of having experienced a unique period in my professional career – he said Onetti Muda – In the hope of having made a tangible contribution to the life of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di RomaI am sure that there will be opportunities to continue the journey together: in fact, I have expressed my intention, as long as the new commitments allow, to maintain an active role within the University. Finally, I thank everyone, from the teachers to the students and all the employees of the University for allowing me to work in an atmosphere of mutual esteem and collaboration”.
Both received greetings from the President of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Felice Barela. “I sincerely thank the professor Andrea Onetti Muda for the work carried out in recent years which have been of intense and fruitful collaboration. I welcome the professor Raffaele Calabrò who has contributed to the project of this University from the beginning, collaborating in the early stages of structuring and development. His, therefore, is a welcome return after a long experience as a university professor, as a doctor, as a parliamentarian. I am certain that together we will continue to work on strategic issues such as internationalization, interdisciplinary scientific research between the medical, engineering and nutritional fields and for the overall growth of our University with its Polyclinic”.
Raffaele Calabrò, born in 1947, is originally from Lucera in the province of Foggia. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in Naples and here he specialized in Cardiology. His career as a university professor began in 1987 as an associate in Pediatric Cardiology at the first Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Naples. Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli”, was also director of the Cardiology Department at the "Monaldi" healthcare company in Naples. After over twenty years of political career, first as a regional councilor and councilor in Campania, then as Senator and Deputy of the Republic through the last two legislatures, he returns today to the university world as rector ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
