Felice Strollo

Biography

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1950, he graduated in Medicine (1974), postgraduated in Endocrinology (1977), Aerospace Medicine (1984) and Nuclear Medicine (1987) and got the Master in Bioethics (2005).
JOB POSITION
He acts as Clinical Research Endocrinologist and Diabetes Specialist at the IRCSS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy.
He has been the Director of the Diabetes and Nutrition Unit, Santo Spirito Hospital, Rome, and now is the coordinator of the endocrine group of Elle-Di, Rome..
Until 2012 he has been the Coordinator of the Department of Metabolism, Nutrition and Wellness of INRCA (Italian National Research Centers on Aging) and the Director of the Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Rome’s Site, where he has been working as an endocrinologist since 1977, serving as the Head of the Hormone Section from 1988 to 1999 and as the Director of the Complex Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases thereafter.
ACADEMICS
Since 1989 has been in charge of the course in “Pathophysiology of Man in Space” at the Postgraduate School of Aerospace Medicine, Rome University “La Sapienza”.
During the last 10 years he has also been in charge of lectures related to Aging at the Postgraduate School of Endocrinology of the Rome University Sapienza, to Chronobiology at the Rome International Postgraduate School of Aesthetic Medicine, to ”Drug research and treatment in the elderly” at the Ancona University Master of Bioethics and to general Endocrinology at the University of Milan, Faculty of Pharmacy.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
He was awarded two research grants at the WHO Human Reproduction Laboratory at the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Director Prof. E. Diczfalusy (1975 and 1980).
He has been a Life Sciences Co-Pi and PI in two space missions (SL1, 1983 and D2, 1993, respectively).
As for clinical research activities, he is a member of the Management Committee of the Italian Society of Chronobiology (SIC) and he has been the General Secretary of the Management Committee of the Lazio Region chapter of the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE).
He is member of IAA and of ELGRA (of which he has been acting as Vice-President for 4 years) and is Vice-President of the Italian Association of Aerospace Medicine (AIMAS) and of the Italian Society of Onco-Geriatrics (SIGerO)
PUBLICATIONS
He is the author of a number of peer reviewed papers related to diabetes, to the neuroendocrinology of aging to the pathophysiology of appetite regulating hormone secretion and to OSAS in diabetes, as well as to aerospace medicine with respect to gonadal function and aging.