Prof. Dr. Giulio Mengozzi, born in 1967 in Torino, Italy, obtained his Medicine degree from the University of Torino. Dr. Mengozzi is the Director of the Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory at “Città della Salute e della Scienza” University Hospital of Torino, where he started his career in 1995 as a resident. His work experience includes clinical chemistry laboratory management as well as clinical governance for routine laboratory activity. He contributed to the automation of both pre-analytical and analytical processes and to the development and application of expert systems for results validation. He is particularly involved in the activity of re-organization of the clinical laboratory network in the Piedmont Health System. His experience has contributed to several recommendations, including the appropriate utilization of laboratory tests and optimization of resource use. He is also involved in many research projects in the field of arterial hypertension (role of vasoactive substances, laboratory screening and second-level tools in the diagnosis of secondary arterial hypertension), endocrinology (steroid hormones and salivary tests), oncology (new biomarkers and pharmacogenetics), emergency and critical parameters (POCT, cardiac biomarkers, sepsis), and autoimmunity. He is a member of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and an active member of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology.
Dr. Emanuele Pivetta, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. is assistant professor in Internal Medicine at the Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, and staff physician at the Division of Emergency Medicine and High Dependency Unit, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino University Hospital, Turin, Italy. After graduating from the University of Turin, he completed his training in the same city in epidemiology, emergency medicine and point-of-care ultrasound. Then, he moved to Boston in 2012 to pursue a research fellowship in emergency ultrasound at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University. His interests include diagnostic accuracy and clinical impact measurements, possible sources of variability and bias in clinical epidemiology, and
point-of-care ultrasound in emergency and acute care medicine.
