Prof. Giovanni Gherardi
Biography
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology (SSD MED/07) since 2017, Qualified as Full Professor since 2020. Deputy Director of the Postgraduate School of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology. Professor of Clinical Microbiology for Degree Courses in Medicine and Surgery, Medicine and Surgery, Nursing Sciences, Food Sciences and Human Nutrition, and for numerous Specialization Schools. Head of the Research Unit "Applied Bacteriological Sciences", with research activities in various fields of Clinical Microbiology mainly in the bacteriological field, such as molecular characterization of bacterial species, study of phenotypic and genotypic mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and virulence factors, comparative studies on bacteriological diagnostic methods, studies on rapid diagnostic tests for the identification of bacterial species and antibiotic sensitivity tests, in particular on rapid microbiological diagnostics of bloodstream infections, studies on antimicrobial stewardship to promote the correct use of antibiotics . Scientific production of about 90 papers in journals with impact factor.
Curriculum
-2017-2022. Associate Professor SC 06/A3 –SSD MED/07 – Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, UCMB, Rome.
-2012-2022. Coordinator of the integrated course "Fundamentals of Basic Science III", Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery, and of the integrated course of Microbiology and Food Microbiology, Degree Course in Food Science and Human Nutrition, UCBM, Rome.
-2002-2022. Professor of "Microbiology" Master's Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery (since 2017), Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery taught in English (since 2020), Degree Course in Nursing Sciences (since 2002), Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, and professor of "General Microbiology", Degree Course in Food and Human Nutrition Sciences (since 2012), UCBM, Rome.
-2019-2022. Member of the Teaching Quality Assurance Group (AQD Group), Degree Course in Food Science and Human Nutrition, UCBM, Rome.
-2017-2022. Participation in the board of teachers Research Doctorate "INTEGRATED BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND BIOETHICS - DOT13A0715", UCBM, Rome.
-2012-2022. Deputy Director of the School of Specialization in Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, UCBM, Rome.
-2011-2022. Coordinator of the tutoring School of Specialization in Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, UCBM, Rome.
-2002-2022. Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology in various courses in various Schools of Specialization, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, UCBM, Rome.
-2014-2019. Member of the teacher-student joint commission, Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, UCBM, Rome.
-2013-2015. Member of the Review Group of the Degree Courses of Nursing Sciences, and of Food Sciences and Human Nutrition, UCBM, Rome.
-2001-2017. MED/07 University Researcher – Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, UCBM, Rome.
-2018-2022. Component of the "Antimicrobial stewardship" team, for related activities, to be carried out in the various healthcare structures, UCBM, Rome.
-2006-2022. Head of highly specialized Complex Functions, Analysis and Microbiology Laboratory, Campus Biomedico University Hospital Foundation (FPUCBM), Rome.
-2001-2005. Assistant, Laboratory of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital (PUCBM), Rome.
-1995-2000. Freelancer, pUCBM, Rome.
-2022. Associate Editor, Chemotherapy, Karger.
-2018-2022. Editor-in-chief, Anti-Infective Agents.
-2014-2022. Member of the Editorial Board, Medical Microbiology (since 2018), Anti-Infective Agents (since 2017), International Journal of Clinical and Medical Microbiology (since 2014).
-2017-2022. Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology
-2014-2022. Review Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology,
-2020. Guest Editor for the International Journal of Molecular Science for the Special Issue entitled "Staphylococcus aureus infections: Pathogenesis, antimicrobial resistance, diagnostics, and epidemiology".
-2007-2022. Collaborative academic assignments with other universities as a member of Examining Commissions for researchers and professors, doctoral thesis, external evaluator and external professor.
-2020. Visiting professor, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
-1998-1999. Researcher, Streptococcus Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA).
-1998-1999, 1994-1995. Researcher with scholarship, Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS) e UCBM.
-1998. Specialization in Clinical Pathology with 70/70 cum laude, University "La Sapienza"
-1995. Qualification as a biologist, "Tor Vergata" University.
-1994-1995. Trainee, S. Giacomo Hospital, Rome.
-1992-1993. Guest thesis student, Laboratory of Virology, ISS.
-1993. Degree in Biological Sciences, University "La Sapienza".
PUBLICATIONS
Creti R, Imperi M, Berardi A, Angeletti S, Gherardi G. Clin Microbiol Infect 2022. 5:S1198-743X(22)00219-1 (IF: 13,9 );
Di Bonaventura G, Lupetti V, Verginelli F, Giancristofaro S, Barbieri R, Gherardi G and Pompilio A. Front. Microbiol. 2022. 12:801152. (IF: 5.64);
Di Bonaventura G, Angeletti S, Ianni A, Petitti T, Gherardi G. Pathogens 2021. 14;10(12):1623. (IF: 3.40);
Buonomini AR, Riva E, Di Bonaventura G, Gherardi G. Diagnostics 2020, 10, 830; (IF: 3.71);
Fontana C, Angeletti S, Mirandola W, Cella E, Alessia L, Zehender G, Favaro M, Leoni D, Rose DD, Gherardi G, Florio L, Salemi M, Andreoni M, Sarmati L, Ciccozzi M. Future Microbiol. 2020.15:203-212 (IF: 3.19);
Pompilio A, Savini V, Fiscarelli E, Gherardi G, Di Bonaventura G. Antibiotics (Basel). 2020. 9(1):15. (IF: 4.36);
Creti R, Gherardi G, Imperi M. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2019. 38(12):2381-2383. (IF: 2.84);
De Plato F, Fontana C, Gherardi G, Privitera GP, Puro V, Rigoli R, Viaggi B, Viale P (in alphabetical order). Clin Chem Lab Med 2019. 57(11):1680-1689. (IF: 3.70);
Gherardi G, Linardos G, Pompilio A, Fiscarelli E, Di Bonaventura G. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2019. 94(3):297-303. (IF: 2.8);
Pompilio A, Di Bonaventura G, Gherardi G. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20(3), 480. pii: E480. (IF: 4.56);
Bonaventura G, Pompilio A, Monaco M, Pimentel de Araujo F, Baldassarri L, Pantosti A, Gherardi GJ Med. Microbiol. 2019, 68(2):148-160. (IF: 2.16);
Gherardi G, Vitali LA, Creti R. Frontiers Public Health 2018, 6:59. (IF: 1.64);
Pompilio A, Galardi G, Gherardi G, Verginelli F, Geminiani C, Pilloni AP, Catalanotti P, Di Bonaventura G. Folia Microbiol (Praha). 2018, 63(2):203-207. (IF: 1.52);
Camilli R, D'Ambrosio F, Del Grosso M, de Araujo FP, Caporali MG, Del Manso M, Ianni A, Orsini M, Batistoni C, Virgili R, Piredda M, De Marinis MG, Gherardi G, Petitti T. Madridge J Intern Emerg Med 2018. 2(2):67-70. doi: 10.18689/mjiem-1000114
D'Aleo F, Di Bonaventura G, Bonanno R, Pompilio A, Zummo S, Geminiani C, Gherardi G. Austin Clin Microbiol. 2017; 2(1):1008.
Gherardi G, D'Ancona F, Pantosti TO; Vaccines. 2017, 35:4587-4593. (IF: 3.50).
Gherardi G, Sciarra F, Krashia P, Nobili A, Di Bonaventura G, D'Amelio M. J Digest Dis Hepatol 2017, JDDH-127.
