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Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s)
Address(es)
Stefania, Boccia
38, Via del Forte Trionfale, 00135, Rome, Italy
Telephone(s)
+39 (0) 6 35001527
Fax(es)
+39 (0) 6 35001522
E-mail
Nationality
Date of birth
Gender
Mobile:
+39 347 1227394
[email protected]
Italian
24 January 1974
Female ; 2 kids (in 2008 and 2010)
Work experience
Occupation or position held
Main activities and responsibilities
MSc, DSc, PhD Associate Professor
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Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
National scientific qualification to function as Full Professor in Italian Universities
Associate Professor of Hygiene
Deputy Director of Section of Hygiene, Institute of Public Health - Università Cattolica del Sacro
Cuore, Rome
Director of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Research Center, Section of Hygiene,
Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Head of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics Unit , Section of Hygiene, Institute
of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
University teacher
2002 - 2012
Work experience
Dates
Assistant Professor
Occupation or position held
Name and address of employer Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Work experience
Dates 2002 - 2013
Occupation or position held Head of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics Unit
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Name and address of employer
Section of Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Work experience
Dates
Occupation or position held
Name and address of employer
2011- on
Editor in Chief Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
PREX, Spa
Work experience Associate Editor: European Journal of Public Health
Dates
2013- on
Occupation or position held
Name and address of employer
Education and training
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Principal subjects/occupational skills
covered
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
2009
PhD in Genetic Epidemiology
Public Health and Epidemiology
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Doctor of Science in Genetic Epidemiology
Public Health and Epidemiology
Faculty of Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Master of Science in Epidemiology
Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
2002
Degree of Specialist in Clinical Pathology
“Sapienza University of Rome”, Rome
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s)
1997
Degree in Biological Sciences
University “La Sapienza”, Rome
Italian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment
Understanding
European level (*)
Language
Listening
C2
English
Speaking
Reading
C2
English
C2
English
C2
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Social skills and competences
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Writing
Spoken interaction Spoken production
Organizational skills, determination, self-motivated
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English
C2
English
Organisational skills and competences
Leadership
Sense of organization
Excellent experience in project and team management (she conductes a team of 15 persons)
Computer skills and competences
Artistic skills and competences
Other skills and competences
Driving licence
Excellent command of Microsoft Office™ tools (Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™)
Excellent command of some Data Management and Analysis applications (STATA, Epi Info and
others)
Excellent knowledge of web applications
Painting, Writing
Gym, jogging, traveling and reading
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Research Areas and Publications The main lines of research in which Stefania Boccia is currently involved concern:
1. (Genetic) Epidemiology of cancer
2. Epidemiological Methods
3. Public Health Genomics
4. Public Health
Publications Track Records Author and co-author of 118 scientific publications (98 in English language journals indexed or impacted,
20 national journals), where she is first or last author in 57% of articles published
National and international Book chapters: 13
Bibliographic indicators H-Index (Scopus )
22
Cumulative Impact Factor (Journal of Citation Report)
265.171
Sum of the Times Cited (Scopus)
1153
Average Citations per Item
12.95
Publications indexed in Medline
89
Additional information ASSIGNMENTS
• 2014-on Coordinator of the National Working Group for Public Health Genomics inside the Italian
Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (SItI)
• 2014-on Member of the Working Group in the area of clinical risk for the Latium Region (working group
Coordination for Health Care Associated Infections)
• 2013-2016 Representative of the Faculty of Medicinel on the Board of Directors of the Hospital
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University "A. Gemelli", Rome, Italy
• 2013-on Member of the Steering Committee of the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project,
http://ecpo.org/
• 2012, dec -on Director of the Health Technology Assessment Unit, Università Cattolica del Sacro
Cuore, Rome, Italy
• 2012, oct -on Member of the Board of SItI, Società Italiana di Igiene _ Medicina Preventiva e Sanità
Pubblica, Regione Lazio, Italy
• 2012, jul- on Deputy Director of the Section of Hygiene - Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine,
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
• 2011-2012 Member of the Evaluation Committee for the "Essential Assistance Levels ", Italian Ministry
of Health
• 2007-on Member of the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) Consortium,
Coordinator Paolo Boffetta (Mount Sinai University, NY). http://inhance.iarc.fr/members.php
• 2007, jun.- on Coordinator of the Italian Network for Public Health Genomics (GENISAP)
ACADEMIC AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• 2002-on Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, biostatistics and Biotechnology
in Public Health in several University teaching courses, Postgraduate Schools and Masters at the Faculty
of Medicine Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
• 2013 -on Member of the Academic Board of the PhD “Public Health”, Department of Health Sciences,
Milano Bicocca University, Milan, Italy
• 2012-2013 Member of the Academic Board of the PhD “Economics and Management in Public
Health”, Faculty of Medicine, Unversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
• 2012-on Scientific Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the
Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
• 2011-on Professor of Issues in Public Health – Master of International Health Care Management,
Economics and Policy (MIHMEP), SDA Bocconi School of Management, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
• 2011- 2013 Professor of Epidemiology - Master of International Health Care Management, Economics
and Policy (MIHMEP), SDA Bocconi School of Management, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
• 2008-2013 Teaching Coordinator of International courses “Special Topics in Epidemiology and
Biostatistics” (Prof: A. Hofman, D. Hosmer, J. Ioannidis, A.C.W. Janssens, S. Lemeshow, K. J. Rothman,
C.M. van Duijn), Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
• 2006-2012 Teaching Coordinator of Master's Degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Faculty
of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
• 2002–2006 Teaching Coordinator of Course in "Molecular Biology in Public Health, Faculty of
Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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MAIN RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROJECTS
National
• 2014-2016 Principal Investigator of a unit inside the multicentrice project funded by Italian Ministry of
Health: “Genetic and Lifestyle Factors in gastric cancer epidemiology: enhancing research through the
establishment of an international consortium”
• 2013-2015 Principal Investigator of the project funded by Fondazione Veronesi: “The role of
microRNA (miRNA), lifestyle factors, and their interaction in Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) risk and
prognosis in elderly and young adults”
• 2013-2016 Principal Investigator of the project funded by AIRC (Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul
Cancro): “The role of microRNA (miRNA), lifestyle factors, and their interaction in Head and Neck Cancer
(HNC) risk and prognosis”
• 2014-2016 Principal Investigator of a Unit inside the multicentric project funded by the Italian Ministry
of Health (CCM 2013) on: " Polypharmacy: analysis of the phenomenon and evaluation and development
of a management model to reduce the impact on the prognosis in elderly patients with cancer
chemotherapy candidates”
• 2012-2014 Principal Investigator of a Unit inside the multicentric project funded by the Italian Ministry
of Health (CCM 2012) on: "Optimization of complex patient management in the territory: a platform of
Integrated Care”
• 2012-2014 Principal Investigator of a Unit inside the multicentric project funded by the Italian Ministry
of Health (CCM 2011) on "The economic impact of genetic testing in the National Health Service (NHS):
evaluation of diagnostic and care, estimates of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis and health
policy at European level"
• 2012-2014 Scientific Coordinator of the project funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (CCM 2011) on
“Predictive genomic tests: census in some Italian regions for the establishment of a register of supply,
and promotion of training for doctors".
• 2011-2013 Principal Investigator of a Unit inside a multicentric national project funded by Italian
Minister of University (PRIN) on “Application of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to the
evaluation of vaccines and HTA impact on Public Health decisions”
• 2010-2013 Principal Investigator of the project funded by AIRC (Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul
Cancro): "Post-GWA study: biological and prognostic significance of ADH polymorphisms in head and
neck cancer patients”
• 2009 Scientific Coordinator of the project funded by Local Health Authority Abruzzo region on
‘Predictive genomic tests for hereditary breast and colon cancer: evaluation of the appropriateness of
screening individuals at high-risk in selected Italian regions’
• 2008-2010 Partner of the National multicenter project on ‘Health Technology Assessment of genetic
tests for venous thromboembolism’ (Coordinator: Prof. W. Ricciardi) funded by the Italian Minister of
University (PRIN)
• 2008 Coordinator of a local Unit inside a multicentric project funded by Local Health Authority Abruzzo
region on ‘Evaluation of the effectiveness of public campaign for the cervical carcinoma screening’
• 2006-2007 Principal Investigator of a Unit inside a multicentric project funded by Italian Minister of
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University on the study of the epidemiology of Legionellosis in Italy
• 2000-on Principal Investigator of three hospital-based case-control studies funded by the Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, and carried out inside the University Hospital.
International
• 2013-2016 Partner of the JPI (Joint Programme Initiative) for the project: “Determinants of Diet and
Physical Activity; Knowledge Hub to integrate and develop infrastructure for research across Europe”
(DEDIPAC KH, Coordinator Prof. Johannes Brug, VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute for
Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• 2013-on Delegate of the Ministry of Health as a representative within the EU project “Personalized
Medicine 2020 and beyond- Preparing Europe for leading the global way” (PerMed) funded by FP7
EU/CSA
• 2011-2015 Partner of the training project EU “Erasmus-Mundus – Western Balcans” (ERAWEB)
funded by FP7 EU partnership of five European Universities (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands; University
of Turin; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome; Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany;
UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria). http://erasmuswesternbalkans.eu/
• 2011-2013 Partner of the "HPV-AHEAD, Role of human papillomavirus infection and other co-factors in
the aetiology of head and neck cancer in India and Europe" (EU FP7, Coordinator Paul Brennan, IARC,
Lyon, France)
• 2010-2012 Partner of the European Network of Public Health Genomics (PHGEN II) funded by FP7 EU
. http://www.phgen.eu/typo3/index.php?id=119
• 2006-2008 Partner of the European Network of Public Health Genomics (PHGEN) funded by FP6 EU
HONORS, AWARDS AND PARTICIPATIONS TO EXPERTISE PANELS
• 2012, feb-2013 Member of the Expertise Panel of the European Science Foundation (ESF) _
"Personalised Medicine for the European citizen"
• 2012-2015 Member of the Steering Committee of the Swiss National Initiative on Healthy Food and
Sustainable Food Production (Swiss National Foundation)
• 2007 mar/apr Fellowship given by 'Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility
(ECNIS) Network at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
• 2007 Award best poster at the Italian Conference of Public Health, Pisa
• 2006 Award best young scientific communication at the Congress 'gastric cancer-treatment by stage',
Campobasso
• 2005 Fellowship for the Master of Science in Epidemiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Rome
• 1997-2001 Fellowship for the Specialization in Clinical Pathology of University “La Sapienza”
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EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Editor in Chief: Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
Associate Editor: European Journal of Public Health, BMC Cancer.
Editorial board: International Journal of Chronic Diseases, Dataset Papers in Medicine, The Scientific
World JOURNAL (until november 2013).
Reviewer the following international journals, among them: Annals of Oncology, Biomarkers, BMC
Cancer, BMC Public Health, Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention,
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, Carcinogenesis, European Journal of Gastroenterology and
Hepathology, European Journal of Internal medicine, European Journal of Public Health, Digestive
Disease and Science, Gene, Genomics in Medicine, International Journal of Cancer, International Journal
of Epidemiology, Italian Journal of Public Health, Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Journal of
Medical Genetics and Genomics, Lung Cancer, Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, Plos One, Public
Health Genomics, Public Health Research e Journal of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration protocols
Referee for the Evaluation of research projects on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education, University
and Research and the Evaluation of research products (VQR 2004-2010) on behalf of ANVUR
Referee for the Evaluation of research projects on behalf of:
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Dutch national science foundation (NWO)
- Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF), for the projects related to “Biomedical Sciences and
Biotechnology”
- University of Verona
- Romanian National Council for Development and Innovation
Signature
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