Private area for Site Staff of the  Interventional Study

ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ

Partner Information

  • Partner Full Name: ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ
  • Partner Short Name: ISS
  • Country: Italy
  • Website: www.iss.it

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS - Italian National Institute of Health) is the main biomedical and public health research institute in Italy with administrative and organizational autonomy and the leading technical and scientific body of the National Health Service. Its mission is to promote public health at national and international level, by means of research, surveillance, prevention, training and communication activities, aimed also at disseminating evidence-based knowledge to policy makers, health professionals and citizens.

The Department of Cardiovascular, Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases and Aging is focused on the promotion of healthy conditions and wellbeing in a life-course perspective, through the study of risk factors and prevention strategies for the major chronic conditions – including cardiovascular, endocrine-metabolic, and immune-mediated diseases – and for age-associated disorders and functional impairment. Researchers in the Department were involved in relevant international projects in the field of aging and chronic diseases, including the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases (CHRODIS and CHRODIS+, funded by the Health Programme of the EU) and the Joint Action on Frailty (ADVANTAGE, funded by the Health Programme of the EU). The experience developed in these areas will support the activities related to the development of the study platform and the definition of the intervention in the AFFIRMO project.

The team of ISS involved in AFFIRMO is composed by MD, biomedical engineering computer scientist and project managers. The ISS team has a relevant expertise in management and analyses of data aimed at identifying prevalence, treatment and outcomes of chronic conditions (mainly cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric conditions). The team manages administrative data (including discharge diagnoses, medication use, death registries) from Umbria Region (around 800,000 persons) that will be used to identify clusters of multimorbidity, and medication use in the AFFIRMO project.

Key persons

Prof. Graziano Onder MD

MD, Director Department of Cardiovascular, Endocrine-metabolic Diseases and Aging, is Fellow of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing. He led or participated in several projects funded by public and private institutions including the Italian Ministry of Health and the European Commission through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 – AdHoc, SHELTER and IBenC) through the third Health Programme (First and Second Joint Action on Chronic Diseases – CHRODIS/CHRODIS+ and Joint Action on Frailty - ADVANTAGE) and Horizon 2020 (Fair4Helath) He is author of more than 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals. H-index 65.

Contact: graziano.onder@iss.it

Dr. Roberto Da Cas

Computer scientist, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) - National Center for Research and Preclinical and Clinical Evaluation of Drugs. Within the ISS, he has been involved in research activities to acquire a better understanding of the benefit-risk profile of drugs; describing and promoting a more appropriate drug use within the NHS; organizing educational activity and scientific events. He is a member of the working group of the Italian Medicines Agency's observatory on the use of medicines (OsMed). These activities are documented on 50 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. H-index 17.

Dr. Eng. Federica Censi

Biomedical engineering, and she is currently a lead researcher at the Italian national Institute of Health. Dr. Censi led or participated to projects funded by public and private institutions including the Italian Ministry of Health, regarding data processing at various levels, from genetics to population studies. She is author of more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals. H-index 16.

Contact: federica.censi@iss.it

Dr. Tiziana Grisetti

Expert in public health communication and dissemination, deals with management international projects of Department of Cardiovascular, Endocrine-metabolic Diseases and Aging- MACA.