Name GIOVANNI VIEGI
E-mail giovanni.viegi@ibim.cnr.it, giovanni.viegi@ifc.cnr.it
CURRENT POSITION:
Acting Director
CNR Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology “A. Monroy”, Palermo (Italy)
Head Pulmonary Environmental Epidemiology Unit
CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa (Italy)
Professor of “Health Effects of Pollution”, School of Environmental Sciences, University of
Pisa (Italy)
MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:
2007 up to now
Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine (SIMeR)
2007-2011
Member of the Global Alliance Against chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) planning group
within the WHO
2005-2006
President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Author of 306 original articles (202 in English), 61 book chapters (24 in English), 545 congress
abstracts (382 in English) and 140 proceedings (49 in English) in Italian, English and French.