FAMILY LIFE

He was born in Legnano (Italy) on January 24, 1945. He married Marisa Bussandri on January 3, 1970. They live in Opera, nearby Milano. They have two sons: Marco, married with Maddalena Passi, and Matteo, married with Annalisa Gebbia. They became grandparents of Giovanna (2000), Francesca (2002), Paolo (2003), Giacomo (2003), Giovanni (2006) and Laura (2009).

EDUCATION

University 5-years based Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, December 1969.

MILITARY RECORD

He served in the Air Force of Italy - Fligth Engineering Services branch - from 1970 to 1971, at the rank of Lieutenant, in charge for apparatus technical testing, both at manufacturer laboratories and at the airport fields.

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS

a) Professor of Healthcare Information Systems and Telemedicine + Biolanguages and Bioarchives at the Engineering Faculty of the Politecnico of Milano. b) Director of e-Health LAB at the Bioengineering Department. c) Additional appointments are with the City University of London, with the Centro di Ingegneria Biomedica of the Italian National Research Council, and with the Cilea Interuniversity Consortium for Information and Communication Technologies. d) Director of the post-graduate 2^nd level Master Program of Telemedicine and Telehealth, formerly cooperated with the Cefriel Consortium of the Politecnico di Milano for advanced education in Information and Communication Technology. e) Professor of Advanced Health Information Systems in the Bioengineering PhD Program of the Politecnico di Milano. f) Coordinator of the Visible Human Dataset - Milano Mirror Site, a cooperation of the Politecnico di Milano with the US National Library of Medicine, at US National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD.

PRESENT OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS at the Politecnico di Milano

Member of the Integrated Academic Senate

FORMER ACADEMIC TEACHING-APPOINTMENTS at the Politecnico di Milano

Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Bioengineering: 1985-2000
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering for Bioengineering: 1978-1987
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Researcher in Bioengineering 1973-1978

FORMER OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS at the Politecnico di Milano

COMPANY APPOINTMENTS

PERIODS ABROAD

As winner of NATO Senior Fellowships, both in 1979 and in 1987 he was Visiting Scientist at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division, on the MIT campus Cambridge, Mass., USA. His office was at the historical and disappeared building 20, where now is the impressive Ray and Maria Stata Center.

RESEARCH FOCUS

His research activities focus is in the field of medical data bases, repositories of bio-images and bio-signals, with emphasis on quantitative electrocardiography, multimedia databases, integration of clinical examination texts with their images, the distributed electronic patient record and its users, Internet for Medicine and Healthcare, sustainable privacy of patient digital data, policies and programs for continuing education of ICT human resources in clinical and healthcare institutions.

ROLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

From 1987 Associate Editor, from 1994 European Deputy Editor, from 2000 he is Deputy Editor of the journal "Computers in Biology and Medicine". From 1989 to 1999 he was member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Methods of Information in Medicine". For many years has been member of the "Comité de patronage" of the Journal "Revue Europeenne de Biotechnologie Medicale".

ROLES IN SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

He is Member and he was Vice-President of the Italian Association of Medical Informatics (AIIM). He is Member of the Italian National Group on Bioengineering of the Italian National Research Council and former Associate Member of the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO). He was member of Working Group 5 on "Medical Devices" of CEN/TC251. Former President of the corresponding Italian Medical Informatics Commission for Standardization at UNI (UNI is the major Italian Agency for Standards). He is member of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) where in the 2000 became member of the International Committee.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHIES

Co-editor of the book "Databases for Cardiology", 1991, Kluewer Academic Publications. Editor of the book "Informatica di base per la Medicina" ("Basic Computer Science for Medicine"), UTET, 1992. Co-editor of the book "Elementi di Informatica Biomedica", 2005, Polipress Editore. Co-editor of the book "Applicazioni di Sanità Digitale", 2008, Polipress Editore. Co-author of book "Basi di Dati per l'Informatica Medica", Città Studi Edizioni, technical branch of UTET, 1996. Additional monographies in Italian are "ARCADIA - Un sistema per la gestione di dati e immagini di PTCA realizzato con un DBMS orientato agli oggetti" ("A System for the integration of PTCA data and images by an object-oriented DBMS"), 1997; "Viste di utente nei sistemi informativi sanitari" ("Users view in health information systems"), 1999; "MyAngelWeb: il sito Internet del paziente a rischio di urgenza" ("MyAngelWeb, the web site for the patient at risk of emergency") 2000.

MAJOR SITES OF PUBLICATION

At the scientific journal level, he has published on Computers and Biomedical Research, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Methods of Information in Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology and Biomedicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Education, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acid Research, International Journal of Medical Informatics, and others. At the proceedings level his regular presences relates to the American Medical Informatics Association and Medinfo, plus for periods, the IEEE Computers in Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology annual meetings.

PUBLICATIONS GLOBAL NUMBERS

He is author of more than 270 articles, published mostly internationally in English. Some fifty of them are on international journals.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS ON JOURNALS (until December 2006)

1. Pinciroli F, Pisanelli DM. The unexpected high practical value of medical ontologies. Comput Biol Med 2006 Jul 31;36(7-8):669-673.

2. Masseroli M, Pinciroli F. Using Gene Ontology and genomic controlled vocabularies to analyze high-throughput gene lists: three tool comparison. Comput Biol Med 2006 Jul 31;36(7-8):731-747.

3. Masseroli M, Visconti A, Bano SG, Pinciroli F. He@lthCo-op: a web-based system to support distributed healthcare co-operative work. Comput Biol Med 2006 Feb 1;36(2):109-127.

4. Masseroli M, Pinciroli F. BioInformatics application service providers of Politecnico di Milano. Healthcare_IT Management, the official Journal of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers 2006;1(2):42-44.

5. Menegoni F, Pinciroli F. A web management service applied to a comprehensive characterization of Visible Human Dataset colour images. Med Inform Internet Med 2006;31(2):143-152.

6. Masseroli M, Galati O, Manzotti M, Gibert K, Pinciroli F. Inherited disorder phenotypes: controlled annotation and statistical analysis for knowledge mining from gene lists. BMC Bioinformatics ISSN: 1471-2105; 2005; 6(Suppl 4): S18, 8 pp.

7. Burgarella S, Cattaneo D, Pinciroli F, Masseroli M. MicroGen: a MIAME compliant Web system for microarray experiment information and workflow management. BMC Bioinformatics ISSN: 1471-2105; 2005; 6(Suppl 4): S6, 6 pp.

8. Masseroli M, Stella A, Alcalay M, Pinciroli F. GeneWebEx: Gene annotation Web Extraction, aggregation, and updating from web-interfaced biomolecular databanks. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. ISSN: 0218-1940; 2005;15(3):511-526.

9. Masseroli M, Galati O, Pinciroli F. GFINDer: genetic disease and fenotype location statistical analysis and mining of dynamically annotated gene lists. Nucleic Acids Research ISSN: 0305-1048; 2005;33(Web Server issue):717-723.

10. Masseroli M, Stella A, Meani N, Alcalay M, Pinciroli F. "MyWEST: My web extraction software tool for effective mining of annotations from web-based databanks". Bioinformatics 2004; 20(18):3326-3335.

11. Masseroli M, Martucci D, Pinciroli F. "GFINDer: Genome Function INtegrated Discoverer through dynamic annotation, statistical analysis, and mining". Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32(Web Server issue):W293-300.

12. Cavalli E, Mattasoglio A, Pinciroli F, Spaggiari P. "Information security concepts and practices: the case of a provincial multi-specialty hospital". Int J Med Inform. 2004 Mar 31;73(3):297-303.

13. Barber B, Gritzalis D, Louwerse K, Pinciroli F. Introduction - Editorial. Int J Med Inform. 2004 Mar 31;73(3):215-6.

14. Reni G, Molteni M, Arlotti S, Pinciroli F. "Chief medical officer actions on information security in an Italian rehabilitation centre". Int J Med Inform. 2004 Mar 31;73(3):271-9.

15. Masseroli M, Cerveri P, Pelicci PG, Pinciroli F, Alcalay M. "Gene Array Analyzer Software: a multi-user platform for management, analysis and visualization of gene expression data from replicate experiments". Minerva Biotecnologica 2003, 15(4) 207-216.

16. Pinciroli F, Masseroli M, Tognola G. "The educational offer in Medical Informatics and Telemedicine at the Engineering Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano". IEEE Transaction on Education 2003;46(3):394-398.

17. Luisa Portoni, Carlo Combi, Francesco Pinciroli: "User-Oriented views in health care information systems". IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering 2002;49(12):1387-98.

18. Pietro Cerveri and Francesco Pinciroli: "Symbolic representation of Anatomical Knowledge: Concept Classification and Development Strategies", in the international JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, vol. 34, pp 321-347 (2001)

19. Francesco Pinciroli: "A Manifesto on Telehealth and Telemedicine", in the international JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION, vol. 8, n. 4, Jul-Aug 2001 ? pp 349-350

20. Francesco Pinciroli, Davide Nahaissi, Matteo Boschini, Roberto Ferrari, Giovanni Meloni, Maurizio Camnasio, Piergiorgio Spaggiari, Giovanni Camerone: "Security Concept in MyAngelWeb, a website for the individual patient at risk of emergency", in the international JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS 2000; 60(2): 203-10

21. Francesco Pinciroli, Fabrizio Crippa, Carlo Combi, Gianluigi Reni, Domenico Fava: "TANCLICO: Tools for the Analysis of Inter-departmental Clinical Communications", in the international Journal METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, vol. 39 (2000), pp 44-49

22. Francesco Pinciroli, Mario Marchente, Carlo Combi, Domenico Fava, Giuseppe Brambillaschi, Alessio Pedrazzi: "TEODOLINDA: a Communication Architecture for Hospital Information Systems", in the international Journal COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE, vol. 62 (2000), pp 59-68

23. Francesco Pinciroli, Luisa Portoni, Carlo Combi, Fabio Violante: "WWW-based access to object-oriented clinical databases: the KHOSPAD Project", in the Special Issue on Internet for Medicine and Health Care of the International Journal COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, vol. 28, n. 5, September 1998, pp 531-552

24. Francesco Pinciroli: "Medical Informatics and Telemedicine at the Politecnico di Milano" in the YEARBOOK OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS ?98, Jan Van Bemmel and A.T. MaCray editors, Elsecier Science, Ireland, 1998, pp 95-100

25. Carlo Combi, Giancarlo Cucchi, Francesco Pinciroli: "Applying Object Oriented Technologies in Modeling and Querying Temporally Oriented Clinical Databases Dealing with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminancy", in the international Journal IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE, vol 1, n. 2, June 1997, pp 100-127

ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS

For recent international and national events please refer to the web address http://www.sanitadigitale.polimi.it/

Less recent international events were:

IMIA-WG4 Working Conference on "Realizing Security into the Electronic Health Record", to be held in Varenna (Italy) on May 31^st-June 3, 2003: member of the Program Committee and Local Promoter;

"Events of Digital Anatomy" Program of the Visible Human Dataset - Milano Mirror Site, given in the first semester of the year 2002 in Milano

"MEDINFO 2001 Know-Share-House", Excerpts of company know-how made public, as tributes to shared Science in Medical Informatics: a track in the Medinfo World Conference of Medical Informatics, held in London on September 2001: promoter and organizer

China-Italy Workshop on Information Technology Application in Medicine and Health Care, held in Beijing on September 14-15, 1999: major co-organizer