Paola Roccabianca Curriculum vitae Address Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health (DiVet), University of Milan via Celoria 10, 20133 Milano, Italy Tel: +39-02-50318114 e-mail: paola.roccabianca@unimi.it Date and place of birth May, 23rd, 1966, Roma (RM), Italy Education 1991 Degree in Veterinary Medicine (full marks with honours) Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan (Italy) 1994 PhD Degree in in Comparative Pathology Professional Specialties and licence to practice 2000 Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathology (ECVP) 1991 Licence to practice in veterinary medicine Professional acitivities 1995-1996 One year fellowship of the Ministry of Italian Education Ministerial for Post- Doctoral toral support to spend in a foreign institution) Department of Veterinary Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis, CA, U.S.A. Advisor: Professor Peter F. Moore, 1996-1997 J. Fullbright Scholarship 1996-1998 Post-Graduate Researcher Advisor: Professor Peter F. Moore, B.V.Sc., Ph.D VM PMI, UC Davis, CA, U.S.A. 1998-2000 Tenure Track Researcher Institute of Veterinary Pathology and Hygien, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Padova, Italy 200-2001 Pathology consultant at the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo BG. Italy 2001-2003 Tenure Track Researcher* 2001- Programme Director of the ECVP certified residency program in veterinary pathology * 2004- Associate Professor* 2007-2011 Member of the AFIP-WHO task force of lymphoma classification * at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan 1
Teaching activities: courses held at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Milan 1998 Histopathology and Cytopathology laboratories to the 3 rd and 5 th year students 1999-2002 Dermatopathology lectures to the 3 rd year students of the Veterinary School of Milano 2004-2009 Professor in Charge of the General Pathology Course for the second year students in the of the Biotechnology School 2004-present Dermatopathology to the 5 th year students of the Veterinary School of Milano 2009-present Lectures of Special Pathology for the second year students in the of the Biotechnology School of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Milan 2009-present Professor in Charge of the Pathology of Laboratory Animals Course (spontaneous and engineered rodents) for the first year students of the Biotechnological Sciences Graduate Course Teaching activities: courses held at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Padova 1998-2000 Histopathology and Cytopathology laboratories to the 3 rd and 5 th year students of the Veterinary School of Milano 1999-2000 Immunopathology in the General Pathology course to the 2 nd year students of the Veterinary 1999-2000 Necropsy practical teaching to the 5 th year students of the Veterinary 1999-2000 Histopathology Laboratory to the 3 rd year students of the Veterinary 1999-2000 Dermatopathology lectures to the 3 rd year students of the Veterinary Other teaching activities March 1995 March 1999 September 2002 August 2003 Invited Speaker to the Workshop of Small Animal Veterinary Diagnostic Cytology for Practitioners. SCIVAC-Cremona 1) Lymphnode cytology 2) Immunophenotyping of Lymphoproliferative disorders Invited Speaker to the Workshop on Diagnostic Cytology of the XVII Congress of the Italian Society of Veterinary Pathologists. Sassari, Italy 1) Lympho node cytology, 2) Hepatic cytology Invited speaker to the 2002 Pathology symposium of the European Division of the Charles Louis Davis Foundation Cell cycle markers in small animal tumors Torino, Italy Invited speaker to the Summer School of Pathology Nantes, France 2
January 24, 2004 Invited speaker by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Lymph node cytology in small animals. Legnaro- Padova, Italy October 17 2004 Invited speaker by SIDEV advances in Veterinary Oncology, Round Cell Tumours. SCIVAC-Cremona, Italy March 9-12 th 2005 Invited Speaker and Instructor at the basic course of Dermathopathology ESVP-SIDEV, SCIVA-Cremona, Italy May 3-6 th 2006 Instructor a the Dernatopathology Workshop of Dermatopathology of the ESVP. SCIVAC-Cremona, Italy May 23-25 th 2007 Invited Speaker at the meeting of the Charles Louis Davis, DVM Foundation, Eastern European Veterinary Symposium, Belgrade (Serbia). Lectures: 1) Gross descriptive techniques 2) Histopathologic descriptive techniques January 27-28 th 2007 Invited Speaker of SIDEV of Cutaneous Immunology. Cremona, Italy Lectures: 1) Skin Immune System 2) Diagnostic Techniques in Cutaneous Immunology 3) Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders 4) Cutaneous Vascupothaies and Vasculitides November 4th 2007 Invited Speaker at the SICVMI. Vasculitis and Vasculopathy in small animals: pathogenesis, classification and histopathology. SCIVAC- January, 26-27th 2008 Invited Speaker SIVAE/SIDEV lecture in clinical cases in dermatology problems of small mammals and pet birds. SCIVA- Cremona, Italy January 30th-February 1 2009 Invited Speaker and Instructor at SIDEV Workshop of Cutaneous Oncology, SCIVAC-SIDEV, Cremona, Italy May 12-15th 2009 Invited Speaker to the Workshop on Dermatopathology ESVD, Cremona, Italy February 7th 2010 Invited Speaker to the Italian Society of Clinical Pathology and the Italian Society of Feline Medicine Cremona, Italy Extranodal lymphomas in cats October 15, 2010 Invited Speaker to the Specialization School of Clinical Oncology of Small Animals, School of Veterinary Medicine, Naples, Italy. June 24th, 2011 Cytological and histological diagnosis of Lymphoma in dogs Invited Speaker to the Specialization School of Clinical Oncology of Small Animals, School of Veterinary Medicine, Naples, Italy Histological classification of Lymphoma in dogs 7 February 2012 Invited speaker by the l Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie. Necropsye tecniques in small animals. Descriptive techniques and lesional interpretations in domestic animals 3 hours 3
25 May 2012 Invited speaker at the IX Congresso AIPVet Decriptice histopathological techniques 1 hour Scientific and professional associations 1994- Member of the European Society of Veterinary Pathology (ESVP) 1995- Member of the Italian Society of Veterinary Pathologists (AiPVet) 1996-2006 Member of the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) 1997- Member of the European Society of Veterinary Dermatology (ESVD) 2000- Member of the European College of Veterinary Pathology (ECVP) 2004- Member of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology (ISVD) Offices held 2002-2005 Examiner for European College of Veterinary Pathologists 2004-2006 Council Board member of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology (ISVD) 2006-2008 President of the Exam Committee of the European College of Veterinary Pathology 2006- Programme director of the ECVP approved residency training 2007-2011 Member of the AFIP-WHO task force of lymphoma classification working 2011-current Council member of the European College of Veterinary Pathology board Publications - 51 peer reviewed articles (indexed in PubMed) - 489 citations (Scopus) - h index: 13 (Scopus) Referee and editorial activity 1999-2005 Scientific Referee of the Italian Society of Exotic Animals (S.I.V.A.E.) 2005- Invited reviewer of Veterinary Pathology 2005- Invited reviewer of the Australian Veterinary Journal 2006- Invited reviewer of the Equine Veterinary Journal 2007- Invited reviewer of Veterinaria SCIVAC 2007- Invited reviewer of Veterinary Dermatopathology 2009- Invited reviewer of Veterinary Clinical Pathology 2009- Editorial board of Veterinary Pathology 2010- Invited reviewer of Histology and Histopathology 2011- Editorial board of Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine Awards 1991 Friskies Award for the best degree thesis «Application of the AgNOR technique in cytologic specimens of mesenchymal tumors in the dog» 1994 Italian Ministerial Education Award for Post-Doctoral Students (one year of post-doctoral support to spend in a foreign institution) 4
2007 CL Davis Foundation Journal Award for the best veterinary pathology paper published in 2006 for the publication: Roccabianca P, Vernau W, Caniatti M, Moore PF. Feline Large Granular Lymphocyte (LGL) Lymphoma with Secondary Leukemia: Primary Intestinal Origin with Predominance of a CD3/CD8{alpha}{alpha} Phenotype. Vet Pathol 43:15-28 2012 Ennio Sanna Award for the best scientific presentation Feline nasal lymphoma;: cytological, histopathologica and immunohistochemical analysis 2012 AIVPAFE / Eukanuba IAMS 2012 Award for the best undergraduate dissertation thesis Nasal lymphoma in cats: cyto-histologycal analysis, immunohistochemistry (phenotype and vital antigen expression) Research interests - Dermatopathology - Immunopathology and mucosal immunology - Lyphoproliferative diseases - Pathology of unconventional companion and exotic animals Languages English: TOEFL (April 1994) Total score: 653 Spanish: Diploma de Espaňol como lengua extranjera (1997) Written: 20 Vocabulary: 20 Verbal: 30 Milan, March 2014 5