Ricci Elia, Council Member
E-mail ericcisegreteria@alice.it
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 18 May 1960
Work experience
January 1990 - April 1998: Assistant
Permanent assistant by the Turin 2 Health Care Unit, Martini Nuovo Hospital, Division II Surgery Dept., on a full-time work contract
Martini Nuovo Hospital, Tofane 71 – 10100 Turin
April 1997: Consultant vulnologist
Appointed consultant vulnologist at the C.T.O. and Maria AdelaideHospitals in Turin C.T.O. / Maria Adelaide Hospitals, Zuretti 29 - 10126 Turin
From September 1998 to August 2000: Director of the General Surgery Dept.
Director of the General Surgery Dept. of the Nuova Major Clinic in Turin
Nuova Major Clinic, S. Giulia 60 - Turin
From September 2001 - present: Director of the Difficult Wound Healing Unit
Director of the Difficult Wound Healing Unit, St. Luca’s Clinic, Pecetto Torinese (Turin) St. Luca’s Clinica, Strada della Vetta 3 – 10020 Eremo di Pecetto (Turin)
Education and training
November 1986: Title of qualification awarded Degree in Medicine and Surgery
Thesis on a clinical research, prepared at the Institute of Surgical Pathology; final mark of 104/110 and publication of the thesis
University of Turin
February 1987: Enrollment in the Medical Registrer of Turin, University of Turin
July 1991: Achieved the specialization diploma in General Surgery, with full marks, University of Turin
April 1991: Achieved the Diploma in Doppler Ultrasonography G.I.U.V.
February 1998: Attendance to a two-week specialization course on “Wound Heaing Research Unit”, University of Cardiff
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s): Italian
Other language(s): English and Portoguese
Team spirit, good ability to adapt to multicultural environments:
•2002 – 2010: Member of trustees Panel European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
•1993: Member of EWMA (European Wound Manegement Society)
•Member of the Board of Directors and founder partner of the Italian Association on Skin Ulcers since 1999
•2001 (June): President of the AISLeC Congress of Turin
•2005: representative member from Italy at the WUWHS in Paris and effective member of the board until 2008
•2005: President of the AIUC Congress in Turin
•2006 – 2007: President of AIUC (Italian Association of Wound Care)
•Board member of Journal of Wound Care
•Board member of Helios
•Member of infection Panel of the World Union Wound Healing Society
•Member of Reimbursement Dressing Panel of he World Union Wound Healing Society
•Scientific Director of “Acta Vulnologica” Italian journal of Wound Care
•Board member of International Journal of Wound Care
Organisational skills
•December 1996: Attendance at the foundation meeting of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel in London, as Italian delegate
•President of the regional reimbursement committee on Wound Care in Piedmont from 1999 to 2005
•From 1999 to 2002 Contract Professor of Vulnology at the University of Turin
•From 2008 to present Vice director of the Master of Vulnology of the University of Turin
Good command of Microsoft Office™ tools.
Author and co-author of 346 pubblications concerning research works, monographies, presentations to National and International Congresses.
Other skills and competences October 1988: Won the “Filippo Gallizia”scholarship given by the foundation “Biancalana Masera” for the operated elderly patients, in cooperation with the University of Ancona. The involved activity was performed within the Institute of Surgical Pathology I of the University of Torino
