Piero Portincasa

University of Bari Aldo Moro,
Italy

Internal Medicine, Dept Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Jonian Area, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Chief
Clinica Medica “A. Murri”
Dept Medicina di Precisione e Rigenerativa e Area Jonica (DiMePre-J),
D.A.I. Attività Integrata Medicina Interna e Specialistica
Regional Hospital Policlinico, Bari, Italy
COVID /NON-COVID UNITS
(october 2016 – to date)

Chief (interim)
Division of Internal Medicine, Policlinico Hospital
D.A.I. Attività Integrata Medicina Interna e Specialistica
Regional Hospital Policlinico, Bari, Italy
COVID /NON-COVID UNITS
(2019 – January 2024)

Vice-Director
Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine e Area Ionica (DiMePreJ)
University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
(01 oct 2022- to date)

Past-Director Department of Biomedical Sciences Human Oncology (DIMO)
University of Bari Medical School
(23-12-21 – 30-09-2022)

President Residency program in Internal Medicine I, University of Bari (2023-26)
Past-Director Residency program in Geriatrics 2016-18/2018-22
Past-President Residency program in Internal Medicine I, University of Bari (2008-12)

Director Regional Referral Center for Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) (2017-)

Editor-in-Chief of Internal and Emergency Medicine (Jan 2022)

MD Degree (University of Bari, Italy, 1981)
Internist (University of Bari, Italy, 1986)
PhD (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1995)
Visiting Honorary Professor (“I. Hatieganu” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2009-)
Past-President European Society of Clinical Investigation (ESCI) (2012-15)
President European J Clinical Investigation Foundation (2015-19)
President European Society Clinical Investigation Trust (2019-)
Member of the Apulian Academy of Sciences
National councillor (2013-17), Secretary (2015-17) Italian Society Internal Medicine (SIMI)
President Apulian Section Italian Society Study of Artherosclerosis (SISA) (2016-)
Laurea H. Causa “C. Davila” University (Bucharest, Romania, 2013)
Laurea H. Causa “I. Hatieganu” University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013)
Laurea H. Causa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Science and Technology (UMFST), Targu-Mures Romania (2018)
American Gastroenterological Fellowship (AGAF) (2020)
General Secretary of Community of Mediterranean Universities (CMU) (2021- )

Total N. publications >500 in peer-reviewed articles
Best cited paper: Lancet 368; 230-39, 2006 (n=879 times)

Scopus total citations 16179, H-index 63 Portincasa, Piero – Author details – Scopus
Google Scholar total citations 26114, H-index 85 ‪Piero Portincasa – ‪Google Scholar
WOS total citations 14205, H-index 58 Citation report – 322 – Web of Science Core Collection