Prof. Dr. Gabriele Savioli is a Medical Doctor at the Emergency Department of IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Italy. He completed his PhD in Experimental Medicine at the University of Pavia, Italy, the same school from which he earned a Medical Specialty in Internal Medicine qualification. He has released 60 publications in various journals and been cited in over 500 papers. His research interests include trauma coagulopathy, emergency departments, ED management, triage, cardiovascular health, major trauma, head trauma, quality healthcare, public health, and geriatric emergency medicine.

Dr. Nicole Gri is a researcher at the IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Foundation, the Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, and Niguarda Cancer Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda. Dr. Gri graduated from the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pavia. Dr. Gri’s research interests include oncology, oncological emergencies, crowding, emergency medicine, hematology/medical oncology, internal medicine, palliative care, etc.

Dr. Iride Francesca Ceresa is an internal medicine doctor and head of the emergency room at the Beato Matteo Clinical Institute in Vigevano. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pavia in 2000. Subsequently, in 2006, she obtained her specialization in Internal Medicine from the same university. In 2019, she obtained a master's degree in Ultrasound for Internal Medicine at the SIUMB School at the University of Pavia.

Dr. Andrea Piccioni is a physician–scientist at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy. He obtained his PhD in the Emergency Department at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS. His skills and expertise include growth factors, signaling pathways, cells, gut microbiota, intestinal microbiota, microbiota, sepsis, and biomarker discovery and validation.

Christian Zanza is an Italian–Ukrainian with an MD and PhD in anesthesia and critical care medicine from the State University of Turin (Italy), emergency and acute medicine from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome (Italy), and geriatric and internal medicine from the State University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). Additionally, he studied clinical pharmacology and toxicology at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), where he specialized in the multiple interactions between the copious drugs used in a critical care and emergency setting. He has been a Fellow of the Critical Care Department at St. George’s University Hospital in London and Assistant Professor in Los Angeles at the Department of Anesthesiology, Keck Medical School—University of Southern California. In 2020, Dr Zanza returned to Italy to provide help during the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, he is a Freelance Consultant in geriatric medicine, emergency medicine, and critical care anesthesiology in many Italian and European tertiary and quaternary hospitals and trauma centers. He performs anesthesia (with critical care) for cardiothoracic, vascular, obstetric, neuro- and orthopedic surgeries; moreover, for emergency medicine, he is an experienced Physician in every aspect of traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury. His research studies are focused on the following areas: invasive and non-invasive ventilation, biological markers of sepsis, point-of-care ultrasound in emergency settings, the interaction of microbiota in many acute diseases, and traumatic and non traumatic brain injury.

Yaroslava Mikolayivna Panasyuk Longhitano is a Ukrainian–Italian with an MD and PhD in anesthesia and critical care medicine from the State University of Turin (Italy) and emergency and acute medicine from Humaintas University (Italy). Moreover, she studied clinical pharmacology and toxicology at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), where she specialized in the multiple interactions between the many drugs used in critical care and emergency setting. She has been an Assistant Professor in Los Angeles at the Department of Anesthesiology, Keck Medical School—University of Southern California. In 2020, Dr Longhitano returned to Italy to provide help during the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, she is a Freelance Consultant in emergency medicine and critical care anesthesiology in many Italian and European tertiary and quaternary hospitals and trauma centers. She performs anesthesia (with critical care) for liver and kidney transplantation, vascular, obstetric, neuro- and orthopedic surgeries; for emergency medicine, she is an experienced Physician in every aspect of traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury. Her research studies are focused on the following areas: invasive and non-invasive ventilation, biological markers of sepsis, point-of-care ultrasound in emergency settings, the interaction of microbiota in many acute diseases, and traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury. Dr Longhitano, along with her husband Dr Christian Zanza, work as anesthesiologists at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgery.

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Ricevuti is a Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Pavia. He is also the head of the Socrates Medicine Office for international contact and exchanges and an organizer of scientific meetings and conferences. His research interests include monocytes, immunology, treatment, inflammation, diagnosis, neuroscience, genetics, biomedical science, gut microbiota, clinical pharmacology, etc.

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Prof. Dr. Ciro Esposito completed his Ph.D. in the physiopathology of renal failure at the University of Pavia. He is now head of the Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, the IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation at the University of Pavia. Prof. Dr. Ciro Esposito is a part of the editorial board of the Journal of Nephrology, Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, and BMC Nephrology. Not only that but he was also a member of the International Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Nephrology from 1996 to 2005 and has been part of the European Renal Association and Italian Society of Nephrology since 1996. His publications have been released in over a hundred papers in various journals and cited in about three thousand documents. His current index is 32 (January 2024). His research interests and expertise include dialysis, AKI, CKD and complications, and glomerular disease.

Dr. Stefano M. Candura earned an academic degree in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Occupational Medicine at the University of Pavia (Italy) in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is now a full professor of Occupational Medicine at the institution he graduated from. Not only that but he is also currently director of the Specialization School in Occupational Medicine and of the Occupational Medicine Unit of the Maugeri Scientific Clinical Institutes. Dr. Stefano M. Candura’s research interests cover the topics of occupational and environmental toxicology, asbestos-related diseases, occupational musculoskeletal disorders, work stress, and work resumption after injury or cardiopathy.