LATRONICO Nicola

Nicola Latronico, MD, Associate Professor, University of Brescia, Italy. Married, two children. Major fields of interest: Neurocritical Care, Evidence-Based Medicine, Ethics. Special interest in critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy, neurotrauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage. Medical degree at the University of Pavia, Italy in 1982 summa cum laude; post-graduate diploma in Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pavia, Italy in 1986 summa cum laude; post-graduate diploma in Neuropathology at the University of Verona in 1992 summa cum laude. Consultant in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University-affiliated Spedali Civili of Brescia, Italy from 1986 to 1997. Clinical researcher from 1997 to 2004. Associate professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Brescia from 2004 to date. Director of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Spedali Civili of Brescia between May 2006 and May 2007. Director of the Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care from May 2007 to 2012. Director of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine from November 1, 2012 to date. Director of the School of Specialty in Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Brescia. From 2000 to 2006 national coordinator of the Italian study group on Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care of the Italian Society of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine SIAARTI. From 1999 to 2010, member of the Board of Directors of the GiViTI. From 2001 to date, member of the Board of Directors and co-founder of the research center “Thomas C. Chalmers” for the methodology of systematic reviews and the promotion of Evidence-Based Medicine. Member of the steering committee of the multicenter, multinational, randomized controlled trial RESCUicp of the University of Cambridge and European Brain Injury Consortium.