Curriculum vitae of Gaetano Perchiazzi
Promoti Philosophiae Doctores (PhD) at Uppsala University, year 2005
Gaetano Perchiazzi was born on 6th November 1967 and lives in Bari, Italy.
He served in the Army (231st Infantry Regiment and Medical Service at Pinerolo Armored Brigade), ending his duties on 4th May 1997.
He is married and has two children.
Education & Academic achievements
Diploma di Maturita'
In 1986 he obtained the "Diploma di Maturita' Scientifica" (Scientific High School) with full marks at Liceo Scientifico "Enrico Fermi", in Bari.
Diploma di Laurea
He enrolled in the Medicine Faculty of Bari University in 1987
He attended as a student, the institutes of Medical Pathology, Surgical Pathology and then the Institute of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
He graduated in Medicine in the Academic Year 1994-95 disserting the thesis "Alveolar overdistension due to pulmonary inhomogeneity during controlled ventilation", obtaining 110/110 cum laude.
Specialty
He graduated as a specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in 2000, discussing the thesis "Application of artificial intelligence methods for clinical monitoring of respiratory mechanics", obtaining 50/50 cum laude.
He attended, as "Guest Researcher", part of his residency program at the Department of Clinical Physiology - Uppsala University - Sweden
Philosophiae Doctor (PhD)
2001-2004 PhD Student in Clinical Physiology at Uppsala University - Sweden
On December 1, 2004 he defended his thesis in Clinical Physiology, entitled "Artificial Neural Networks in the assessment of respiratory mechanics", supervisor prof. Göran Hedenstierna, opponent: Prof. Björn Jonson.
Academic Position
He is Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine from June 2001- December 2007 at Bari University, Italy.
Since 2007, he is Aggregate Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Bari University, Italy.
Main postgraduate courses & certifications
November 1997: certified provider of procedures of Basic Life Support, according to the Guidelines of Italian Resuscitation Council and the standards of the American Heart Association (BLS-provider)
January 1998: certified provider of procedures of Advanced Cardiac Life Support, according to the Guidelines of Italian Resuscitation Council and the standards of the American Heart Association (ACLS-provider)
March 1998: certified instructor of procedures of Basic Life Support, according to the Guidelines of Italian Resuscitation Council and the standards of the American Heart Association (BLS-instructor)
May 1998: "Fifth Course in Tecnniques and Special Procedures in the ICU patients"
May 1998: title of Tutor of Emergo Train according to the standards of the Italian Society of Disasters Medicine
March 2000: Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL Test) in Rome
May 2001: Laboratory Animal Science (FELASA cat.C) at Uppsala University - EU certification for conducting animal experiments
May 2002: Biostatistics at Uppsala University
November 2002: Scientific Presentation at Uppsala University
November 2003: Research Ethics and Philosophy of Science at Uppsala University
January 2007: Project Management for Scientific Research at Bari University
May 2008: Pediatric Advanced Life Support
February 2011: Ultrasound Central Vascular Access Course
Awards
1997: First prize
During the 51st SIAARTI ( Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Intensive Care Medicine) Congress, in October 1997, he won the prize for the best scientific free paper reserved to young researchers, with the paper "Pulmonary inhomogeneity during controlled ventilation: comparison of different ventilatory techniques"
1999: First prize
On the 25th September 1999, according to SIAARTI scientific committee, he was awarded the absolute first prize for the best scientific contribution of the year in Intensive Care Medicine, with the paper "Meccanica del Sistema Respiratorio in un Modello Animale di Acute Lung Injury: Uso di Reti Neurali" (Respiratory System Mechanics in an Animal Model of Acute Lung Injury Using Neural Networks). The awarded study took place at the Dept. of Clinical Physiology at Uppsala University during 1999.
2000: Second and Third prize
He wins the second SIAARTI prize for the study "Le reti neurali artificiali possono estrarre la compliance statica del sistema respiratorio senza necessita' di fermare il flusso inspiratorio" ("Artificial Neural Networks can extract the static compliance of the respiratory system without needing to stop inspiratory flow").
As co-author he wins the third SIAARTI prize for the study "Analisi computerizzata dei segnali acustici respiratori" ("Computerised analysis of acoustic respiratory signals")
Chronology of Research activity
* 1994: studies on pulmonary mechanichs, using computer simulators implemented via software, regarding the effects of different strategies of ventilation on the inhomogeneous lung.
* 1995: studies on models of pulmonary structures of a spontaneously-breathing lung, for simulating assisted modalities of ventilation.
* 1996: research project aiming at analyzing chest radiographic images by computer.
* 1997: studies about patient-ventilator interactions during assisted ventilation, and the problem of the so-called missed efforts; studies about "child abuse", with a particular interest in Intensive Care and Traumatologic aspects.
* 1998: together with the Faculty of Science of Information: exploratory studies about the application of Artificial Neural Networks for the extraction of lung mechanical parameters.
* 1999: guest researcher at the Department of Clinical Physiology of Uppsala University, Sweden, studying the application of artificial neural networks on the monitoring and the delivering of mechanical ventilation on animal models.
* 2000: Studies about the Respiratory Control by use of intravascular optical fibers catheters (optode technology) in a spontaneously breathing animal model.
* 2001: Application of ANN technologies to different strategies of mechanical ventilation. Studies about using lung sounds as monitoring tool.
* 2002: Evaluation of robustness of ANN-based monitoring tools.
* 2003: Research using fuzzy-logic methods for controlling mechanical ventilators.
* 2004: Extraction of intrinsic PEEP by ANN.
* 2005: Studies on cerebral entropy; CT image analysis of diseased lung
* 2006-2007: Compliance maps of diseased animal lungs by using CT images.
* 2008-2009: Compliance maps of healthy and acutely ill human patients by using CT images.
* 2010-2011: Topographic assessment of stress and strain of human and animal lungs.
* 2012: Micro-mechanics of animal lungs by using Synchrotron Radiation Computer Tomography at ESRF of Grenoble
Informatics
He knows the most important programming languages and writes programs and routines to be used in the research activities. The most used platform for his research is MatLab (particularly: Image Processing, Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Statistics Toolboxes.
Teaching activities
Since 1996 he is in charge of tutorial activities and integrative teaching for the chair of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, particularly:
- Tutorial activities for undergraduate doctors in Medicine, Engineering, Physics
- Lessons & practice of BLS (Basic Life Support) for students in Medicine
Since 2002 he officially teaches Pain Therapy, Hyperbaric Medicine, Emergency Semiology (Medical School, Bari) ; Disaster Medicine (Nurse School, Bari), Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Naval and Civil Nurse Schools, Taranto and Radiology Technicians, Bari).
Medical Profession
1996-1997: Army Healthcare Corp, Emergency Department, Bari Military Hospital, Italy
1996-2000: Residency Program in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Bari University, Italy
2000-2002: Limited time contract as full Specialist in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine: ICU, Dept. of Emergency and Transplantation, University Hospital, Bari, Italy
2002-now: Staff specialist in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine: ICU, Dept. of Emergency and Transplantation, University Hospital, Bari, Italy