TOSCANO Antonio

PROF.ANTONIO TOSCANO
CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: ANTONIO TOSCANO, M.D., born 16/12/1956 in Messina, Italy
ADDRESS: Full Professor of Neurology, University of Messina, Italy at the AOU Policlinico “G. Martino”, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Neurology and Neuromuscular disorders Unit, Via Consolare Valeria, 1 – 98125, Messina, Italy
DEGREE in Medicine (M.D.): 1981
FIELD OF STUDY: Medicine - Since 1982, he is a member of the Medical Professional Order of the Province of Messina (n° 4743)
DEGREE: Specialization in Neurology (4 years) (M.D.)
YEAR: 1985
1986-1987 Post-doctoral Fellow,
University of London, UK at the “The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases”, Queen Square, London, working with Dr. J. A Morgan-Hughes and with J.B. Clark at the Department of Biochemistry of S. Bartholomew’s Medical College on “Mitochondrial disorders”
1988 Post-doctoral Fellow, with a fellowship for a project on “Mitochondrial disorders” at “The National Hospital for Nervous diseases”, London U.K, funded by ESF (European Society Foundation) of Strasbourg, working with dr. J.A: Morgan-Hughes
1989 Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Messina, Italy Fellowship for “Studies on animal models with traumatic neuropathies” Neurology/Veterinary Units, University of Messina, Italy
1990-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Anaesthesiology, University of Messina, Italy
2000-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Anaesthesiology, University of Messina, Italy
2009 – to now Full Professor of Neurology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Italy
2011- Director of the Regional Reference Center for Rare Neuromuscular Disorders, Department of Neurosciences, AOU Policlinico “G. Martino”, Messina Italy
Since 2018 – Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Messina
June 2021-june 2022 Director of UOC of Neurology and Neuromuscular disorders
July 2022 up to now Director of UOSD Stroke Unit
YEAR: 1998 Membership of ENS
INVOLVEMENT: 1998 – to 2013 Member of the ENS Subcommittee for Neuromuscular Disorders. Chairman and speaker for several years for the Neuromuscular Teaching Courses
Since 2009 to 2013, reviewer of abstracts on Muscle disorders and Neurogenetics for ENS meetings. Membership of European Academy of Neurology (EAN)
Since 2013, active elected member of the general Assembly of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN)
2014-2018 Member of the EAN Scientific Committee (SC). Since the same year, member of the EAN Muscle disorders panel
Since 2015 to 2018, appointed EAN SC member for Rare Diseases
2016-2018 Chairman of the EAN panel on Muscle disorders
Since 2016, member of the Board of the EAN Rare Disease task force
Since 2017, Co-chairman of the organization of the “Italian Neuromuscular Day”, an event contemporarily held in 18 different Italian cities
Honors
Member of various scientific Italian and International Societies (SIN, AIM, ASNP, EAN, WMS)
1996-2000 Member of the Committee of the Italian Society of Neuropathology
2006-2009 Secretary of the Italian Association of Myology (AIM)
2009-2012 President of the Italian Association of Myology (AIM)
2012-2015 Past President of AIM
2009 to now Member of the World Pompe Global Advisory Board
2011 to now Member of TREAT-NMD Task Force
2013 Honorary Advisory Board Member of SOLANE (Sociedad Latino-Americana Enfermedades Neuromuscolares)
2021 “Ranvier Prize” released by CIDP Onlus Italy
2021 1° Rare Diseases Award for the “Giornata NeuroMuscolare (GMN)”, of whom Prof. A. Toscano is Coordinator, released by FORUM SISTEMA SALUTE 2021
2014-2018 Member of the Scientific Committee of the EAN (European Academy of Neurology) appointed by the EAN President, Prof. G. Deuschl, and by the EAN Scientific Director, prof. A. Federico
2015 Member of the European Pompe Consortium (EPOC) Advisory Board
2015 Member of the Italian Neurological Society (SIN) Advisory Board
2017-2019 Treasurer of the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN)
Since 2017, member of the ERN-NMD Scientific Board
Since 2019, Member of the Muscle and Neuromuscular junction EAN panel management group
2019-2022, Member of the EAN Programme Committee
Since 2020, Member of management group of the Rare Neurological Disorders (RND) of EAN panel
Since October 2021 to 2023, Secretary of the Italian Society of Neurology
Since June 2022, Treasurer of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN)
Editorial Boards
He is member of the Editorial Board of: 1) Neuromuscular disorders, 2) Journal of Neuromuscular diseases, 3) Neurological Sciences, 4) Acta Myologica
Reviewer for several scientific journals as NEJM, Neurology, Brain, J. of Neurology, Neuromuscular Disorders, Muscle & Nerve, Acta Neuropathologica, Neurological Sciences, Plos One, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, Orphanet journal of rare diseases, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Journal of neuromuscular diseases
He has also organized and co-organized several meetings on neuromuscular disorders as Italian Meeting of Neuropathology (1991 and 1999), Joint meeting of Italian Association of Myology (AIM) and Italian Peripheral Nerve Society (2004), Italian Meeting for Pompe disease management and treatment (2010-2016), Teaching Courses for the XII International Congress Neuromuscular Disorders (Naples), Step Forward Pompe Disease (SFPD – Budapest 2011, Turin 2014), Italian Meeting of AIM (2012-2016), Joint meeting between Italian Association of Myology and the Italian Peripheral Nerve Group (2020)
Prof. Toscano scientific activity has been mainly developed in neurogenetic diseases with specific reference to neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders
He has published over 280 papers with high impact factor mainly on neuromuscular disorders
In fact, he is particularly dedicated to the diagnosis, management and treament of:
1) Metabolic myopathies as muscle glycogenoses (with particular interest in Glycogenosis type II – Pompe disease), lipid storage myopathies and mitochondrial disorders,
2) Genetic myopathies (limb-girdle syndromes, distal myopathies, channelopathies, cardiomyopathies, congenital myasthenia),
3) Peripheral neuropathies (particularly, disimmune and genetic neuropathies)
4) Neurodegenerative diseases (i.e., cerebellar ataxias and spastic paraparesis).

Messina, 01-03-2023
Prof. Antonio Toscano