Marco RomanelliDr

Dr Marco Romanelli is full professor of dermatology and chairman of the Division of Dermatology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Dr Romanelli is a graduate of the University of Pisa and received his MD and PhD in experimental dermatology from the medical faculty. He completed his residency in dermatology in Pisa and a fellowship at the Wound Healing Research Center, University of Miami, FL, USA. Subsequently, he specialized in medical hydrology. Since 2000 Dr Romanelli has been a member of the Medical Faculty of the University of Pisa and Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr Romanelli is a past president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies WUWHS. He is also a founding member and past president of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP). He is leader of the WOUND HEALING Task Force at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology EADV. At national and international levels, Dr Romanelli has served as member and chair of multiple grant review panels and on the editorial advisory boards of multiple journals. Dr Romanelli has extensive clinical experience of managing patients with leg ulceration. He is responsible for the Wound Healing Research Unit inside the Santa Chiara Hospital at the University of Pisa. In 2006 he coordinated the European Pressure Ulcers prevalence project in Italy, which has put together data from over 25 national hospitals. Dr Romanelli’s research activities include the role of inflammation in chronic wounds, the role of biomarkers in atypical wounds, the development of biomaterials for tissue engineering, and the elaboration of biomedical sensors to non-invasively assess acute and chronic wounds.