Quaglini Silvana
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Born in Corvino San Quirico (PV) on February 17th, 1957Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'InformazioneUniversità degli Studi di PaviaVia Ferrata 1 27100 Pavia (Italy)tel: +39-0382-985679fax: +39-0382-525638 |
Current Position
Full Professor of Health Care Information Systems Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
Academic Degree
1981 | Laurea cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy |
Appointments
1989-1992 | Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
1992-2011 | Associate Professor of Health Care Information Systems |
Research Interests
Her research interest in general is about decision support systems in medicine and more particularly on basic areas such as decision theory, clinical process modeling, artificial intelligence, probabilistic systems, biomedical statistics, knowledge acquisition. Application areas include support systems for diagnosis, therapy and monitoring, such as computerized guidelines, economic evaluation models based on decision analysis, telemedicine systems and workflow management within healthcare organizations. The main medical areas covered by such applications are stroke, chronic diseases, cardiovascular risk, motor and cognitive rehabilitation. The recent push toward personalized medicine has focused the latest applications on the "shared decision making" and "context-aware home-monitoring patients". |
Academic Teaching
Courses
1992-today | Medical Informatics |
1992-today | Decision Support in Medicine |
2010-today | Master's Degree in Clinical Engineering, in collaboration with the IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia |
PhD Programs
1997-today | Committee, PhD Programme in Health Technologies, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
Responsibilities
1996-2000 | Campus Project: Quality Control Responsible for the curriculum of the Diploma in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
2000-ongoing | Management of Internships at the University of Pavia and industrial partners, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
2017-2018 | Member, Department Commission for management of Quality and Resources, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
Research Grants
A. National Projects (MIUR-PRIN)
PRIN
1994 | Informatica medica |
1995 | Dynamical Models of microarrays gene expression data (PRIN), Unit P.I. |
1996 | Sistemi informativi sanitari basati su agenti |
1998-1999 | Una architettura basata su agenti a supporto del lavoro cooperativo in medicina |
Ministero della Salute
1997 | La malattia cerebrovascolare ischemica: impatto socio-economico, linee guida diagnostico-terapeutiche ed identificatori di outcome. Studio pilota in quattro province della Regione Lombardia |
2001 | Nuove modalità di rapporto pubblico-privato |
Fondazione Banca Regionale Europea
2001 | Un sistema informativo per la gestione dei percorsi diagnostico-terapeutici dei pazienti con patologia cerebrovascolare nel territorio della Provincia di Pavia |
B. EU Projects
1999-2002 | GAMES I: a General Architecture for Medical Expert Systems |
1992-1994 | GAMES II: a General architecture for Medical Expert Systems |
1996-1998 | HC-ReMa: health care resource management |
1996-1999 | T-IDDM: Telemanagement of insulin dependent diabetic mellitus patients |
1998-1999 | ProGuide: building and disseminating of medical guidelines |
1998-2000 | PATMAN: Patient Management |
2001-2003 | HOMEY: Home Monitoring through Intelligent Dialog System |
2004-2008 | MyHeart (prevention and treatment of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases) |
2011-2015 | MobiGuide (guidelines telemedicine and personalized context-sensitive) |
Organization of Scientific Events
Member of the Program Committee for AIME (biennial conference). Scientific Chair of the AIME '2001. |
Chair for the Scientific Organizing Committee of the GNB summer school 2017. |
International and National Organizations
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) |
Società Scientifica Italiana di Informatica Biomedica (SIBIM), Presidente |
Italian Stroke Organisation (ISO) |
GNB (Group National Bioengineering) |
She regularly serves as reviewer for the international conferences AMIA and MEDINFO, and several EFMI conferences. |
She is member of the TTRAM group for the HealthTechnology Assessment at the Lombardia Region. |
Awards
Second prize at the ECSC (Enhancing in cancer supportive care) m-health app award 2015, funded by Helsinn, with the project "HeNeA, an app for head&neck cancer home-patients" |
Swiss Bridge award for cancer research, with the project "An economic evaluation of two follow-up strategies for head&neck cancer", in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute of Milan (2013) |
Poster award "A. Liberati" at the Strokeforum Conference 2012 with the work "A new functionality for the SUN-LOMBARDIA registry: monitoring patients' enrolment and performance indicators” |
Student paper award "M.Stefanelli and M. Ramoni" (co-author) AIME Conference 2011 (Bled, Slovenia) with the work "Extracting information from summary of product characteristics for improving drugs prescription safety" |
Best poster award (3rd prize) at Medinfo 2010 (Cape Town, South Africa) with the work "Applying process mining techniques to analyze clinical processes" |
Third best paper at Hipponion Stroke National Prize (Vibo Valentia 2008), with the work "Assessing compliance with SPREAD guidelines and its correlation with outcomes from the SUN register data" |
best paper award at MIE- Medical Informatics Europe 1999 (Lubiana), with the work"A computerised guideline for pressure ulcer prevention." |
My performance as a teacher? See the web site: https://valmon.ds.unifi.it/sisvaldidat/unipv/index.php - courses "INFORMATICA MEDICA - BASI DI DATI IN MEDICINA" (Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione - Bioingegneria LT DM270)
Publications
Author of about 220 scientific publications
Publication list in Google Scholar
Bibliometric indices
- Citations 7374 (total) 2922 (since 2013)
- h-index 45 (total) 29 (since 2013)
- i10-index 127 (total) 79 (since 2013)