• Email: stefanopicca51@gmail.com
Posizione attuale:
• Responsabile Servizio di Nefrologia e Nefrologia Pediatrica. BIOS s.r.l. Roma, Italia tel 06 8080514
• Educational Ambassador of the International Society of Nephrology
• Ex Responsabile Unità di DIalisi Pediatrica. Ospedale “Bambino Gesù” Roma, Italia (in pensione da Marzo 2018).
Education:
• 1969: Licenza liceale Liceo Classico “Virgilio”, Roma, Italia
• 1970-76: Studente Medicina, Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italia
• 1976: Laurea in Medicina, 110/110 e lode
• 1976-80: Specializzazione in Nefrologia, Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italia. 70/70 e lode
• 1981-82: Stage come Assistant Etranger presso Service d'Etudes Métaboliques de la Clinique Néphrologique de l'Hôpital Necker of Paris (Prof. J.L. Funck-Brentano). Attività clinica Nefrologia, Dialisi
• 1985-1990: Specializzazione in Pediatria, Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italia. 70/70 e lode
Attività Clinica:
• 1974-76: Internato presso 2° Clinica Chirurgica, Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italia. Attività in Dialisi e Trapianto Renale
• 1976-78 Clinical Fellow, presso 2° Clinica Chirurgica, Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italia. Attività in Dialisi e Trapianto Renale
• 1978-1985: Assistente a tempo pieno presso Nefrologia e Dialisi. Ospedale di Viterbo, Italia
• 1985-2009: Assistente e in seguito Aiuto a tempo pieno presso Divisione di Nefrologia, Dialisi e Trapianto Renale. Ospedale Pediatrico “Bambino Gesù” , Roma, Italia.
• 1985: Creazione della prima Unità di Dialisi Pediatrica a Roma
• 1985-90: Creazione dell’attività di Terapia Dialitica Continua nelle Unità di Terapia Intensiva (Pediatrica, Cardiochirurgia, Neonatale). Ospedale Pediatrico “Bambino Gesù”, Roma, Italia.
• 2009-18: Responsabile Unità Dialisi Pediatrica. Ospedale Pediatrico “Bambino Gesù, Roma, Italia.
• In pensione da Marzo 2018
• Dal 2016 è Educational Ambassador della lnternational Society of Nephrology. Come tale, ha effettuato missioni internazionali per insegnamento e pratica clinica in Africa (Sud Africa, Camerun, Senegal, Benin, Costa d'Avorio, Algeria, Gabon) e a Haiti
• Aprile 2018 a oggi: Responsabile Servizio di Nefrologia e Nefrologia Pediatrica. BIOS SPA. Roma, Italia
Organizzazione e Management
• 2003-12: Programma di Educazione e Training sulle Terapie Dialitiche Continue nel Bambino Critico nelle Unità di Terapia Intensiva (Pediatrica, Cardiochirurgia, Neonatale). Ospedale Pediatrico “Bambino Gesù”, Roma, Italia.
Attività di Ricerca (principale)
• 1987-1992: Cofondatore dell’European Study on Dietary Treatment of Progression of Renal Failure in Children (Responsabili: prof. O. Mehls, prof. F. Schaefer, Heidelberg, Germania) (ECC project)
• 1992-2001 “Molecular Mechanism of Disease Progression and Renoprotective Pharmacotherapy in Children with Chornic Renal Failure“ (“ESCAPE”_trial)
• 2003-2007 ESCAPE II (“Efficacy of strict blood pressure control and ACE inhibition on progression of chronic renal failure in pediatric patients” (Study Head prof. F. Schaefer Heidelberg, Germany)
• 2003-2007 Workpackage n. 2 of the above project: ”Effect of ACE inhibition and intensified antihypertensive treatment on cardiac hypertrophy and blood pressure dynamics in children with chronic renal insufficiency”. (Study Head prof. F. Schaefer Heidelberg, Germany)
• 2005 Società Italiana di Nefrologia Pediatrica ( S.I.N.P.): Coordinatore Gruppo di Studio su Linee Guida della Terapia della Iperammoniemia Neonatale e delle Scompenso Metabolico
• 2007-2009: Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease, The 4C Study (Study Head prof. F. Schaefer Heidelberg, Germany)
• 2008: Regitro Italiano di Dialisi Pediatrica: Gruppo di Studio sulla FUnzione Renale Residua e Controllo della Dosi DIalitica nei Centri Italiani di DIalisi Pediatrica
• 2009 A Prospective Registry Study Observing the Safety and Patterns of Use of Darbepoetin Alfa in EU Paediatric Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Receiving or Not Receiving Dialysis Darbepoetin alfa. Amgen Protocol Number 20070211. Site Responsible: S. Picca
• 2009 An open-label multi-center, multiple dose study to determine the optimum starting dose of intravenous MIRCERA® for maintenance treatment of anemia in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis. Sponsor: Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. Site Responsibles: I. Guzzo, S. Picca
• 2010 Course Co-Director (other co-Director: T.E. Bunchman) of the 6th International Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (PCRRT) Conference. Rome, April 8 - 9 -10, 2010. Angelicum. Pontificia Università S.Tommaso D’Aquino
• 2014 Assessment of Worldwide Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Renal Angina and Epidemiology (The AWARE Study). Principal Investigator: Stuart Goldstein, MD, Professor. Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
• 2014 An Open-label, Single-arm Study to Assess the Safety and Tolerability of Cinacalcet HCl in Addition to Standard of Care in Pediatric Subjects Age 28 Days to < 6 Years with Chronic Kidney Disease and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Receiving Dialysis. Cinacalcet HCl (AMG 073) Amgen Protocol Number: 20110100
• 2014 The effects of haemodiafiltration (HDF) vs conventional haemodialysis (HD) on growth and cardiovascular markers in children 3H (HDF, Hearts and Height) study. 4C Study (Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease). Director prof. F. Schaefer, Heidelberg, Germany,
• 2015-a oggi: “EURAKId”. European Registry for The Dialysis Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury in Children. Principal investigator: Isabella Guzzo, MD. Co-investigator Stefano Picca, MD. 4C Study (Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease). Director prof. F. Schaefer, Heidelberg, Germany
Medical Boards:
• 1976: Iscrizione Ordine dei Medici, Roma, Italia
Società Scientifiche:
• Società Italiana di Nefrologia
• Società Italiana di Nefrologia Pediatrica
• International Society of Nephrology
• European Society of Pediatric Nephrology
• International Pediatric Nephrology Association
• South African Renal Society (honorary)
Peer Reviewer per:
• Pediatric Nephrology
• Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation
• European Journal of Pediatrics
• Kidney International
• International Journal of Artificial Organs
• Journal for Inherited Metabolic Diseases
• Nature Scientific Reports
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Lingue:
• Madre lingua: Italiano
• Inglese e Francese correntemente
Referenze Internazioneli:
• T. E. Bunchman. Professor & Director Pediatric Nephrology. Children's Hospital of Richmond, VA. VCU School of Medicine. Sanger Hall 12-024C 1101 East Marshall St. PO Box 980498. Richmond, VA 23298, USA. pcrrt@aol.com
• Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, FAAP, FNKF. Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology | Medical Director, Pheresis Service. Division of Nephrology and Hypertension | The Heart Institute. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. 3333 Burnet Avenue MLC 7022. Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. stuart.goldstein@cchmc.org
• Prof Pierre Cochat, Unité de Néphrologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Place d'Arsonval, 69437 Lyon, France. pierre.cochat@chu-lyon.fr
• Prof. Rosanna Coppo. Former Director, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit. Regina Margherita Children's University Hospital, Turin. rosanna.coppo@unito.it
• Prof. Franz Schaefer, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Pediatric Nephrology division at Heidelberg University Hospital. franz.schaefer@med.uni-heidelberg.de
• Giovanni de Simone, MD, FACC, FAHA. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Medical School, via. Sergio Pansini 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy. simogi@unina.it
• Prof. Claudio Ronco Director Department of Nephrology St. Bortolo Hospital Viale Rodolfi 16. I-36100 Vicenza Italy. cronco@goldnet.it
• Prof Mignon McCulloch. Prof. Assoc Professor. Red Cross War Memoria Children's Hospital. Paediatric Intensive Care/Nephrology. Klipfontein Rd, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. South Africa. mignon.mcculloch@uct.ac.za
