Professor of Anesthsiology and Intensive Care at the “Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, “A. Gemelli” University Hospital.
Director of the General Intensive Care Unit of the Policlinico A. Gemelli University Hospital and of the Institute of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care.
Since 1986 ordinary member of the European Intensive Care Medicine Society. From 1995 to 1999 member of the Council of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Editor in Chief of Intensive Care Medicine.
Author of more than 150 papers, on several aspects of Noninvasive Ventilation, ARDS, Shock and sepsis.