Curriculum

Curriculum

Name AVERSA, TOMMASO
Address DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN PATHOLOGY OF ADULTHOOD AND CHILDHOOD “G. BARRESI” - UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA
VIA CONSOLARE VALERIA - 98124, MESSINA, ITALY
Current Professional Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS
Telephone +39 090 2212613
Mobile +39 349 5103397
Fax +39 090 2212143
E-mail tommaso.aversa@unime.it
Nationality Italian
Date of birth 31st January 1980
Mother tongue: Italian
Other Languages: English
Member of the Italian General Medical Council (Ordine dei Medici) from 7 March 2005 (Section of Messina, reference number 8855)

WORK EXPERIENCE
• 08/11/2021 – to date: Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood “G. Barresi” - University of Messina – Via Consolare Valeria, 98124, Messina
• 08/11/2018 – 07/11/2021: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood “G. Barresi” - University of Messina – Via Consolare Valeria, 98124, Messina
• 31/12/2013 – 08/11/2018: Research Associate of Pediatrics at Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood “G. Barresi” - University of Messina – Via Consolare Valeria, 98124, Messina
• April 2014 – to date: Pediatric Consultant with a special interest in Pediatric Endocrinology. Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico “Gaetano Martino” – Via Consolare Valeria, 98124, Messina
• January 2013 – December 2013: Pediatrician specialist volunteer - Clinical research at Pediatric Unit – Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic – A.O.U. “G. Martino”, Messina

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• January 2010 – December 2012: PhD course in Experimental and Metabolic Endocrine Sciences (XXV cycle), Clinical Experimental Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Messina. Title of qualification awarded: Doctor of Philosophy: Title of Thesis: “Cardiovascular risk in adolescents with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: a cross-sectional and prospective study”
• November 2004 – October 2009: Pediatrics Residency Training Program (5 years) at Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy. Title of qualification awarded: Specialization Diploma in Pediatrics. Title of Thesis: “GH deficiency during the transition age to adulthood: experience of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital”
• September 2008 – August 2009: Clinical Research Fellowship in Paediatric Endocrinology (12 months) at Department of Paediatric Endocrinology – Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Head of Department: Professor Peter E Clayton)
• February 2005: Messina University Medical School, Italy. Title of qualification awarded: Italian Medical License.
• November 1998 - July 2004: Messina University Medical School, Italy. Title of qualification awarded: Medical degree with full marks (110 cum laude/110). Title of Thesis: “Early treatment with GH in Turner Syndrome: prepubertal catch-up growth and waning effect”
• September 1994 - July 1998: Liceo Classico F. Maurolico, Messina, Italy. Title of qualification awarded: “Diploma di Maturità Classica” with full marks 60/60.

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
• Ordinary Member of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) since 2018
• Ordinary Member of the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE) since 2016
• Ordinary Member of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SIEDP/ISPED) since 2008
• Ordinary Member of the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP) since 2008
• Coordinator of the Italian Study Group for Thyroid Diseases of SIEDP/ISPED for the period 2017-2019
• Member of the Youth Committee of the SIEDP/ISPED from 2009 to 2017
• Member of the Didactic Committee of the SIEDP/ISPED for the period 2019-2021
• Coordinator of the Italian Study Group for Turner Syndrome of SIEDP/ISPED for the period 2021-2023
• Member of the Macroregional Sicilia-Calabria Council of the SIE for the period 2018-2022
• Secretary/Treasurer of the SIP Sicilian Regional Council from 2011 to 2015
• Junior Member of the SIP Sicilian Regional Council for the period 2020-2023
• Delegate of the College of Young Pediatricians at the National Executive Council of the SIP for the period 2021-2023
• Invited speaker at 48 National and International Meetings on Pediatric Endocrinology

RESEARCH FIELDS OF INTEREST: Clinical research in Pediatric Endocrinology. Pathogenesis and molecular biology of GH deficiency, Physiopathology of puberty, Pituitary pathology and Thyroid diseases, Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Turner’s syndrome, endocrinological and metabolic aspects of small for gestational age.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
Investigator in the following clinical studies:
• “0-6 EpPOI Project: Education for prevention of Childhood Obesity in 0-6 years of age”. Grant of the Sicilian Region in 2021(Co-Investigator).
• “Adherence to Growth Hormone Therapy and the Quality of Life in Pediatric Patients: new strategies of evaluation and intervention”: Grant from Pfizer Inc. in 2021(Co-Investigator)
• PATRO Children, EP00-501: “Post-marketing safety and effectiveness of Omnitrope® in children and adolescents”. Years 2012-2020 (principal investigator)
• ECOS Study, EMR200104_529: “A national, multicentre, observational study to evaluate adherence and long term outcomes of therapy in paediatric subjects using easypod electromechanical device for growth hormone treatment”. Years 2010-2015 (sub-investigator)
• University research program PRA 2005 – Prot. ORME059035: “Inhibin B as marker of ovarian function and menarche age in girls with precocious puberty after discontinuation of therapy with GnRH analogues” (sub-investigator)
• University research program PRA 2005 – Prot. ORME052815: “Evaluation of adiponectin levels in idiopathic precocious puberty: possible role of weight at birth and at diagnosis” (sub-investigator)
• University research program PRA 2006/2007 – Prot. ORME07E4ZE: “Inhibin B as marker of ovarian function in Turner syndrome” (sub-investigator)

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Author of 85 scientific paper published on international journals with impact factor and of more than 120 abstracts presented as posters or oral communications at National and International meeting of Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology.
Year of the first international publication with IF: 2007
Total IF: 319.258
Average IF for scientific paper: 3.756
Average IF for academic year 19.954
Total citations (Scopus): 1245
H-Index (Scopus): 21
Articles published in the last 10 years (2012-2022): 78 (2021 Italian National Scientific Qualification threshold for Full Professor of Pediatrics: 45)
Citations of articles published in the last 15 years (Scopus 2007-2022): 1245 (2021 Italian National Scientific Qualification threshold for Full Professor of Pediatrics: 1145)
H-index of articles published in the last 15 years (Scopus 2007-2022): 21 (2021 Italian National Scientific Qualification threshold for Full Professor of Pediatrics: 19)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCES
Associate Editor for
• BMC Pediatrics (IF 2.125)
• Frontiers in Endocrinology (IF 5.555)
• Frontiers in Pediatrics (IF 3.418)    
Associate Guest Editor per
• International Journal of Molecular Science (IF 5.923)
• Biomedicines (IF 6.081)
 
Editor of the Research Topic Autoimmune Thyroid Pathology - Specificity of the Pediatric Age (Topic Editors Wasniewska MG – Aversa T – Gawlik A) on Frontiers in Endocrinology (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/11810/autoimmune-thyroid-pathology---specificity-of-the-pediatric-age) – 12 papers published
 
Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Novel Insights on the Molecular Aspects of Endocrine Disorders in Childhood" on International Journal of Molecular Science (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/endocrine_childhood) – 2 papers published
 
Guest Editor of the Special Issue ""Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Thyroid Diseases" of Biomedicines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomedicines/special_issues/Mechanisms_Thyroid_Diseases) – calls are opened, deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2022.
 
Reviewer of several scientific papers for the following international peer-reviewed journals indexed by Scopus, WoS, and/or Pubmed:
Archives of Disease in Childhood – Biological Trace Element Research – BMC Endocrine Disorders – BMC Pediatrics – British Journal of Radiology – Ear and Hearing – Early Human Development – Endocrine – Endocrine Connections – European Journal of Pediatrics – Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology – Frontiers in Endocrinology – Frontiers in Immunology – Hormone Research in Paediatrics – International Journal of Endocrinology – International Journal of Immunogenetics – Jornal de Pediatria – Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health – Journal of International Medical Research – Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism – Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology – Lipids in Health and Disease – Medical Principles and Practice – Oncotargets and Therapy – Pediatric Obesity – Pediatric Research – Pharmacological Reports – Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism – Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management – Thyroid.