SPATARI Giovanna

EDUCATION
Medical Degree (1990), University of Messina
Residency in Haematology (1994), University of Messina
Residency in Occupational Medicine (2002) University of Messina, Italy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1998 to 2014: Assistant Professor of Occupational Medicine (MED/44)
2014 to present: Associate Professor (MED/44)
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
Chief of the Day-service in the Department of Occupational Medicine a Responsible of out patient clinic of Professional Emathology at the University Hospital, “Gaetano Martino” of Messina
TEACHING
Occupational medicine in the following degree courses (undergraduate students Messina University): dental hygienist, technics of the prevention in the Environment and in the working places, speech therapists, radiology technicians, psychomotricity in childhood.
In addition she currently teach Occupational Medicine in the following Schools of Specialization:Audiology,Phoniatric, Rheumatology, Occupational Medicine.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Author of more than 50 publications either on national and international medical journals, mainly in the field of professional haematology, immunotoxicology and biological risk factors on different worker's categories.
H index = 9; Citations (total n.) 221 - source scopus: dec 2015.
MEDICAL FOUNDATIONS EXECUTIVE BOARD
2003-2014 Secretary of Executive Committee of he national branch of Preventive Medicine in Health workers.
2015 to present: National Secretary of SIMLII (Italian Society of Occupational Medicine and industrial hygiene)
NATIONAL PROJECTS funded
PRIN 2006 – responsible of the Research Unit, in the project:
“Individual susceptibility of professional exposition to low doses of benzene and other volatile organic compounds”: implications for risk evaluation and monitoring”. PRIN 2006 n. 2006068922, Pricipal Investigator Prof. M. Manno).
INAIL 2010/2011, PI in “Evaluation of mixed risk exposition to low benzene doses and other volatile organic compounds: role of individual susceptibility and toxicological interactions”.
MINISTERY OF HEALTH PROJECT 2013
Responsible of Research Unit, in the Project: CCM 2013 “Evaluation, communication and management of carcinogenic risk of benzene exposition , polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nano particles in urban areas affected by installations of petroleum refining and in areas of high urbanization".- CUP E28C13000070001
PARTECIPATION AT EDITORIAL ADVISOR BOARD
GIMLE volume XXXII – N. 3 july-september 2010
GIMLE volume XXXV, supplement N. 4 october-december 2013