Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information First name/Last name Giovanni Sotgiu Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences - Address University of Sassari – Via Padre Manzella, 4. Sassari – 07100, Italy Telephone(s) +39 079 22 9959 Fax +39 079 22 8472 E-mail(s) [email protected]; [email protected]

Nationality Italian

Date of Birth 30/August/1972

1996-1997: Medical Degree (110/110 cum laude); 2000-2001: Specialization in Infectious Diseases (50/50 cum laude); 2003-2004: PhD in “Methodology of Clinical Trials” (Excellent); Degree/Specialization/PhD 2006-2007: Specialization in Medical Statistics (50/50 cum laude). 2014-2015: Executive Master in Management of Health and Social Care Organizations. 2016: Fellow of European Respiratory Society (FERS)

Academic Position 2016-2017: Full Professor of Medical Statistics – University of Sassari, Italy. 2009-2010: Associate Professor – University of Sassari, Italy. 2004-2005: Assistant Professor – University of Sassari, Italy.

Scientific Sector 06/M1 –Medical Statistics/MED-01 Sweden/European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Foreign Activity Public Health Activities in several European and non-European countries (Ukraine, Bolivia, Macedonia, Portugal, Albania, Zimbabwe, Latvia, etc.).

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Teaching Professor of the following medical disciplines in undergraduate and graduate courses, University of Sassari, Italy: -Preventive and Community Nursing; -Hygiene and Preventive Medicine; -Hygiene and Epidemiological Methodology; -Mental Disorders Epidemiology; -Medical Statistics; -Medical Statistics for Experimental Research; -Demography; -Scientific Research Methodology; -Social Medicine; -Health-Care Organization; -Health Economics.

Professor of Medical Statistics in the following post-graduate courses, University of Sassari, Italy: -Anatomo-Pathology; -Cardiology; -Cardio-Surgery; -Childhood Neuropsychiatry; -Clinical Biochemistry; -Dermatology; -Food Sciences; Teaching Activities -Gastroenterology; -Haematology; -Hygiene and Preventive Medicine; -Infectious Diseases; -Microbiology and Virology; -Nephrology; -Neurology; -Obstetrics and Gynecology. -Pediatrics; -Psychiatry; -Radiotherapy; -Rheumatology; -Sports Medicine; -Surgery; -Urology; -Vascular Surgery; Professor of Healthcare Management in the following post-graduate courses, University of Sassari, Italy: -Digestive Surgery and Endoscopic Surgery Professor of Informatics in the following post-graduate courses, University of Sassari, Italy: -Otorhinolaryngology Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology in Master Degree and PhD courses

-Medical Doctor of the Epidemiology, Ecology, Hospital Prevention Service, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine Institute, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy (former position). -Medical Doctor of the Epidemiology, Ecology, Hospital Prevention Service, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine Institute, University Hospital (AOU) of Sassari, Sassari, Italy (former position). -Former Director of the Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, Clinical and Public Health Activity University Hospital (AOU) of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Member of the following committees: -Inter-Agency Tuberculosis (University Hospital –AOU- of Sassari, Italy, and Local Health Unit no. 1 of Sassari, Italy). -Infection Control, University Hospital (AOU) of Sassari, Sassari, Italy. -Institutional Review Board/Ethical Committee (Local Health Unit no. 1 of Sassari, Italy).

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-President of the degree course Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Techniques, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Academic Roles -Former Member of the Guaranty Committee, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy. -President of the Research Committee, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Focused on Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases Prevention, Hospital Hygiene, Environmental Hygiene, Health Education.

-Former Secretary of the European Respiratory Society Group 10.2 Tuberculosis; -Former Chair of the TBNET Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology steering committee Scientific Activity section; -Former Chair of the European Respiratory Society Group 10.2 Tuberculosis; -Former Secretary of the European Respiratory Society Assembly 10 Respiratory Infections.

Publications n.: 457 H index: 36

Foreign Languages Understanding Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken Interaction Spoken Production Language En Excellent En Excellent En Excellent En Excellent En Excellent Language Sp Good Sp Good Sp Good Sp Sufficient Sp Sufficient

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-Public Health and Tuberculosis Epidemiology Expert: Global DOTS Course on TB and TB/HIV management - 2005. WHO Training Course for PPM Consultants - 2006. TB Infection Control: WHO training course for managers at the National and subnational levels - 2009. TB surveillance and surveys: WHO Training Workshop for Consultants - 2011.

Member of the following international and national boards: - World Health Organization European Region Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis. -Regional Interagency Coordinating Committee on Tuberculosis Control and Care - European Respiratory Society Representative. -American Thoracic Society Tuberculosis Treatment Guidelines Group. -World Health Organization Systematic Reviewers Group on Latent Tuberculosis Infection. -European Respiratory Society Task-Force for Chest Imaging in Acute Respiratory Failure. -European Respiratory Society College of Experts. -European Board for Accreditation in Pulmonology Management Council. -Area 4 “Clinical/Organizational/Epidemiologic/Social” and Area 5 “Research e International Relationships” of the Agenzia Nazionale per i Servizi Sanitari Regionali (AGENAS).

Consultant for the following international organizations in the tuberculosis field: -World Health Organization. -World Health Organization European Region. -European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control. -PATH-US.

Member of the following editorial boards: 1.Section editor of BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 2.Associate editor of European Respiratory Journal. 3.Associate editor of PLoS ONE. 4.Associate editor of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 5.Associate editor of ERJ Open Research. Organization, Management, 6.Associate editor of Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine. Scientific Skills 7.Associate editor of Journal Brasileiro de Pneumologia. 8.Member of the editorial board of Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease.

-Awarded as the Best Reviewer of the European Respiratory Journal.

Reviewer of the following journals: 1. Acta Tropica. 2. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. 3. Archives of Medical Research. 4. BioMedical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology. 5. BMC Cancer. 6. BMC Infectious Diseases. 7. BMC Public Health. 8. BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 9. BMC Research Notes. 10. BMJ Case Reports. 11. BMJ Open. 12. Canadian Respiratory Journal. 13. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 14. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 15. Drug Resistance Updates. 16. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 17. Epidemiology and Infection. 18. Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health. 19. ERJ Open Research. 20. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 21. European Respiratory Journal. 22. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy.

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23. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology. 24. Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine. 25. Future Microbiology. 26. Global Health Action. 27. Immunotherapy. 28. Infectious Diseases. 29. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 30. International Journal of Biomedical Science. 31. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 32. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 33. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 34. International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 35. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases. 36. Italian Heart Journal. 37. Italian Journal of Public Health. 38. Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 39. Journal of Infection.

40. Journal of Infection and Public Health.

41. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 42. Journal of Pediatrics. 43. La Presse Medicale. 44. Lancet Infectious Diseases. 45. Lancet Public Health. 46. Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

47. Medical Science Monitor.

48. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease. 49. Mycobacterial Diseases. 50. Open Journal of Infectious Diseases. 51. PLOSone. 52. Pharmacoeconomics. 53. Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

54. Respipedia. 55. Respiration. 56. Respiratory Medicine. Computer Skills 57. Respiratory Research. 58. Thorax. 59. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 60. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 61. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment.

Excellent use of the following programs: -Comprehensive Meta-analysis; -EpiInfo; -MetaDisc; -; -Prism; -; -SPSS; -; -Statistica; -StatsDirect.

For details on his national and international scientific publications please consult the following Further Information web address: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=sotgiu+g

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Signature Giovanni Sotgiu

Date 12/Oct/2017

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