Stefano Bombardieri

Date and place of birth  March 5, 1944 at Ischia di Castro, Italy

July 1968 Degree in Medicine cum laude from the Università Cattolica di Roma.

June 1969 - June 1970  Fellow of Medicine (Rheumatology) at the Columbia College of Physicans and Surgeons, New York, NY.

July - December 1970   Fellow of Rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.

1971 - 1972 Fellow at the Department of Microbiology, Istituto Superiore della Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Nov. 1973 - Nov. 1974 Researcher in clinical immunology, CNR Clinical Physiology Laboratory, Pisa, Italy.

Dec. 1974 - Nov. 1982  Assistant (Assistant Professor and Registrar) at the Institute of Medical Pathology I, Università di Pisa.

as of Nov. 1982 Associate Professor of Clinical Immunology, Università di Pisa.

as of Nov. 1989 Chief, Clinical Immunology Unit, Università di Pisa, Italy.

as of Oct. 1st, 2000 Professor of Rheumatology, chief of the Rheumatology Unit , University of Pisa.

2004 - 2007 President of the Italian Society of Rheumatology.

2008 - Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy

Specialisations

Infectious Diseases (1971); Internal Medicine (1976); Rheumatology (1978).

Scientific activities and international study groups

Scientific activities mainly concentrating on the clinical and immunological aspects, and on the diagnosis and therapy of systemic autoimmune diseases, in particular systemic lupus erythematosus, essential mixed cryoglobulinemia, Sjögren's syndrome, progressive systemic sclerosis, and polymyositis.

Group leader of the preparatory activity on "Diagnostic criteria for epidemiological studies of Sjögren's syndrome", financed by the Directorate for Biology of the Commission of the European Communities .

Coordinator of a European Consensus Group for "The definition of activity criteria in systemic lupus erythematosus", under the auspices of EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Studies and Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT).

Coordinator of the Multicenter Study for defining Disease Activity Criteria on Scleroderma on behalf of the European Scleroderma Study Group.

Coordinator (2000-2002) of the ACR Study Group on Sjögren's syndrome.

Member of the EULAR Scientific Committee: 1999 and 2006-2009

Member of the ACR Committee on Remission criteria in Rheumatoid Arthritis: 2007 -

Membership in professional societies

American College of Rheumatology; Henry Kunkel Society, Società Italiana di Reumatologia.

Editorial activities

Editor-in-Chief Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, since 1984.

Present member: Advisory Committee of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, UK; Editorial Board of Lupus; Editorial Board of Current Rheumatology Reports, Current Science Inc, USA; Editorial Board of Rheuma21st (online journal) USA, Editorial Board of Autoimmunity Reviews, Editorial Board Modern Rheumatology, Japan.

Past member: Editorial Board of: Arthritis and Rheumatism (1991-1995); Plasmatherapy and Transfusion Technology (1982-1986); Journal of Nuclear and Allied Sciences (1977-1981); Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia; International Journal of Artificial Organs; "Immunology and Medicine", Kluwer Academic Press, UK.