Giovanni B Frisoni CURRICULUM VITAE - centro alzheimer

� 1998: Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Brescia, Graduate School of Educational Sciences
Cristina Franzoni ‐ Il ruolo della salute percepita e della disabilità nella definizione della qualità della vita
nell’anziano: risultati dell’indagine epidemiologica “Centro storico di Brescia”.
� 1998: Universita’ degli Studi di Brescia, PhD Course in Neuroscience
Cristina Geroldi ‐ Biological markers of disease and disease progression in Alzheimer’s disease.
Apolipoprotein E and regional atrophic changes of the brain.
� 1992: Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, Graduate Course in Psychology and Clinical Neuroscience
Tabaglio Lionello ‐ Prevalenza della depressione associata a demenza secondo diversi strumenti di
rilevazione.
14. REMARKS AND COMMENTS
Personal features that might represent winning factors
Picking and leading people. In my 20 years’ career, I have tutored dozens of young physicians,
psychologists, and non biomedical professionals. In my working Institution, I am credited with the
ability of picking young clinical and scientific talents and teach them the principles of the scientific
method with passion, discipline, and commitment. Some of these have become or are becoming
successful scientists such as Nicola Filippini (who has recently published in PNAS), Cristina Geroldi (99
entries in Pubmed since 1994), Samantha Galluzzi (35 entries in Pubmed since 2000), Marina Boccardi
(21 entries in Pubmed since 2001), Roberta Rossi (17 entries in Pubmed since 2002), and Anna Caroli
(14 entries in Pubmed since 2005).
Cooperativeness. I can boast a large number of cooperations at all geographical levels, from the IRCCS‐
FBF institution (senior coauthors Zanetti, Binetti, Gennarelli, Miniussi, and Geroldi), to the national level
(Caltagirone, Trabucchi, Soricelli, Beltramello, Padovani, Babiloni, Nobili, Falini, Rozzini, Bellelli, Perani,
Filippi, Pantoni, Rossini), the European level (Vellas, Winblad, Soininen, Rinne, Tihonen, Robert,
Scheltens, Barkhof, Hampel, Touchon, David Smith, Wahlund, Fox, Waldemar), and the International
level (Whitehouse, Toga and Thompson, De Carli, Weiner, Ferrucci, Collins, Jack, Csernansky,
Davatzikos, De Leo) (non exhaustive lists). Notably, I have been able to work with scientists coming
from the most disparate fields of science, from psychology to genetics, neurobiology, bioinformatics,
mathematics and statistics, computer science, and physics. Only 2 of my current research group of 25
people are physicians, all the others being psychologisits, mathematicians, bioinformaticists, and
neurobiologists. The latter has recently been hired to work on animal imaging in the context of Pharma‐
cog (see section 14 Grants and Research Project Report), demonstrating my motivation to a cross‐talk
with the basic sciences.
My approach to professional cooperation can be summarized in the motto “always negotiate, never
compromise”, meaning that a balance among the different agendas of clinically and scientifically driven
people can as a rule be stricken in all cooperative projects, but this should never occur at the expense
of patient care, methodological integrity, and scientific soundness.
Creativity. In my native country, I am credited with the peculiar achievement of having been able to
produce top rank scientific products in the field of imaging despite the lack of a scanner in my
institution. Indeed, the IRCCS‐ FBF is not hosting any radiological facility, and imaging research has been
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