Gian Carlo Di Renzo, MD, PhD - Italy
Articles and Interviews on OBGYN.net by Dr. Di Renzo
Gian Carlo Di Renzo, MD, PhD - Italy
Articles and Interviews on
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Dr. Di Renzo
Gian Carlo Di Renzo was born on June 13, 1951 in Verona, Italy. After
graduation cum laude at Medical School of the University of Padova, he was a
research fellow at the Universities of Verona, Messina and Modena. After
training at CHUV in Lausanne (Switzerland), at UCH in London (UK), at the
University of Texas in Dallas (USA), and at the Catholic University in Nijmegen
(NL) (1977-1982), he became a senior researcher at the University of Perugia.
Since 1992 he is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Prenatal Medicine and
head of the Perinatal and Reproductive Center at the University of Perugia.
Since 2003 he is Chairman of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dean
of the Faculty of Obstetrics and Midwifery. Since 2004 he is Chairman of the
Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Perugia.
His research interests have been focused on: prostaglandins and parturition,
amniotic fluid, fetal lung maturity, childbirth organization, fetal monitoring,
preterm labour, gynecologic endocrinology. He is principal investigator of
several research projects for the National Research Council and for the
Ministries of University and Health of Italy and the European Union Research
Projects (EUROPOP, EUROPET, FECG, SAFE etc.).
From 1983 to 1989 he was general Secretary of the Italian Society of Perinatal Medicine. From 2003 to 2005 he was President of the Italian Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Between 1988 and 2000 he has been the Secretary-Treasurer of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, President from 2000 to 2002, and since 2002 he is Executive Director and Chairman of the Educational Committee. He was a member of the Executive Board of the European Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (1989-1992). From 1999 to 2004 he was member of the Executive Board of EBCOG (European Board and College of Ob/Gyn). From 1998 to 2004 he has been Chairman of the Study Group on "Assessment of New Technologies" and member of the FIGO Standing Committee on "Perinatal Health" (1988-1997). He was Member of the FIGO panel of experts on “Maternal and Perinatal Health” (1997-2007 ).
From 1984 to 1996 he organized the International School on "Perinatal Medicine" at the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Italy, and since 1998 he is Director of the European School of Perinatal Medicine.
Former editor of the Journal of Perinatal Medicine (De Gruyter, Berlin
1990-1996) corresponding editor of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
(Taylor and Francis, London, 1996- ) and Associate Editor of the international
journal Clinics in Ob/Gyn (Karger, 2005- ), from 1996 he is Editor-in-chief of
the “Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” (formerly Prenatal and
Neonatal Medicine), for Informa Health Care, UK, and since 1999 he is
corresponding editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(renewed 2006-2008). He is a member of the Editorial Board of several
international journals, such as the European Journal of Obstetrics, Fetal
Diagnosis and Therapy, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Journal of Perinatal
Medicine, the Archives of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Diagnostico Prenatal,
etc.
He is member of several professional Societies, among which the Royal Society of
Medicine (London, 1985), the Society of Gynecologic Investigation (USA, 1985),
the Societé Francaise de Ginecologie et Obstetrique (1981), the American Society
of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology (USA, 1985), the Society of Maternal
Fetal Medicine (USA, 1986), the New York Academy of Sciences (1992-), the
American Society of Reproductive Medicine (2003), and founding member of the
World Association of Perinatal Medicine (1991-) of the International Society of
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1991-), and of the International
Academy of Perinatal Medicine (2005- ). He has also been elected member of the
International Academy of Human Reproduction (2002- ). He is also member of the
Executive Board of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine. Moreover, he is
honorary member of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Societies of Hungary,
Argentina, Ecuador, Romania, Georgia, Czech Republic, the Croatian Society of
Ultrasound in Medicine, the Spanish and the Ibero American Societies of Prenatal
Diagnosis. Moreover, he is member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Since
1999 is an invited member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Bangladesh Society of Ob/Gyn, the
Maratea Children Prize (1994), the Foundation Corradi Prize for “Scientific
Research” (1998), the Lilley Medal from the “Fetus as a patient” International
Society (2006), and the Allan Chang Visiting Professorship (Hong Kong, 2007). He
has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Athens (2008),
the Honoris Causa from the Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy
of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and the Maternity Prize in Istanbul.
He has organized several international congresses and courses among which the
11th European Congress of Perinatal Medicine (Rome 1988), the 7th World Congress
of Hypertension in Pregnancy (Perugia 1990), the 2nd World Congress of Perinatal
Medicine (Rome 1993), the 12th International Workshop on “Multiple Pregnancy”
(Assisi 1999), the 16th International Congress ‘The Fetus as a Patient’ (Rome
2000), the 78th National Congress of the Italian Society of Obstetrics and
Gynecology (Perugia, 2002), the International Symposia on “Diabetes and
Pregnancy” (Assisi, 2004), the International Forum on Birth (Rome, 2005) and the
8th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine (Florence, 2007). Moreover, he was
member of the Scientific Committee of the FIGO Congress (Kuala Lumpur, 2006).
Among his scientific production (over 1100 papers of which more than 200 in
referred international journals and 65 books) it is to mention the books "Perinatal
Medicine: problems and controversies" edited with D.F. Hawkins in 1986 for Raven
Press, NY, the series: "Advances in Perinatal Medicine" edited both with E.V.
Cosmi and D.F. Hawkins, the “Textbook of Diabetes and Pregnancy” edited with Hod,
Jovanovic, de Leiva and Langer (2003, and 2nd edition 2008 for Informa
Healthcare). Since 1980 he was also editor of the Italian quarterly reviews
"Clinic Obstetrics and Gynecology" and “Progress in Obstetrics and Gynecology”.
He is the author of the major italian treatise of Obstetrics and Gynecology for
Verduci Pbl., Rome, 2005 (2 vol, 2400 pag. at its 2nd edition 2008). He also
coauthored with Umberto Simeoni the Atlas “The neonate and perinate” for Informa
Healthcare, Oxford, 2006.
He has been invited as speaker to more than 800 international and national
congresses, meetings and courses.
He writes and speaks English, Spanish and French fluently.
CV in MS word document - in Italian