Dept. of Public health and Paediatrics School of Medicine, University of Torino
Prof. Franco CAVALLO – Full Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dept. of Public Health and Pediatrics – University of Torino, Italy. Born in Biella (Italy) on June 16th, 1947. Graduated in Medicine on July 16th, 1971. Diploma of Specialist in Child Psychiatry on July 19th, 1975. Diploma of Specialist in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine on December 13th, 1976. Prof. Cavallo has a very good knowledge of written and spoken English, and of written and spoken French. Research Assistant at the Institute of Hygiene of the Faculty of Medicine from 1971 to 1972 and from 1974 to 1976. From 1976 he was in charge of different courses of Hygiene at the Faculty of Architecture and at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Torino. In 1983 he won a post as Associate Professor of Hygiene at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. From November 1st, 1991 Full Professor on the Chair of Biostatistics of the Faculty of Medicine, where he is now in charge of the Clinical Epidemiology course for the students of the undergraduate course in medicine. From February 1995 to October 1998 he has been in charge as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. From November 2001 to October 2004 Prof. Cavallo has been in charge as Dean for Medical Education of the Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Cavallo has been part from 1997 to 1999 of the core team of the project ‘European Degrees in Public Health’ commissioned by the European Commission (DG V F/3) to ASPHER. From 1997 to 2002 he coordinated a European Project for a European Master in Public Health. He is since 2001 the Principal Investigator for Italy for the HBSC Network (Health Behaviour in School Aged Children), an International collaboration sponsored by the WHO Regional Office of Copenhagen. He is responsible since 1999 of the Piedmont Registry of Growth Hormone administration and since March 2010 is President of the Regional Commission for Growth Hormone administration. His scientific activity is documented by more than 200 publications.
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