Congress Organisation

Organising Committee

President: Roberta Ballestriero (Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts, London. Gordon Museum of Pathology, London)

Cristina Basso (Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School)

Francesco Maria Galassi (Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide)

Giovanni Magno (University of Padua, University Museums Centre - CAM)

Francesca Monza (Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti and Pescara)

Fabio Zampieri (Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School)

Alberto Zanatta (University of Padua, University Museums Centre - CAM)

Organising Secretary: Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School, Italy

Scientific Committee

Fausto Barbagli (ANMS President National Association Scientific Museums, Italy. Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, Zoology Section “La Specola”, Italy).

Cristina Basso (MD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


Raffaele De Caro (MD, Professor of Anatomy, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


William Edwards (Curator- Gordon Museum of Pathology, Senior Tutor, Deputy Director EMDP, Kings College, London).


Sharon Hecker (PhD, Independent Art Historian and Curator, Milan).
Veronica Macchi (MD, Professor of Anatomy, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


Giovanni Battista Nardelli (MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


Gabriella Nesi (MD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Italy).


Andrea Porzionato (MD, Professor of Anatomy, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


Maurizio Rippa Bonati (MD, Professor of History of Medicine, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


Alessandro Riva (MD, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy. Founder of the Museum of Clemente Susini’s Anatomical Waxes, Professor of History of Medicine, University of Cagliary, Italy).


Alessandro Ruggeri (MD, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy. Former Scientific director of the Luigi Cattaneo Museum of Anatomical Waxes, DIBINEM, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy).


Giovanni Silvano (PhD, Professor of Modern History, Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua, Italy).


Gaetano Thiene (MD, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua Medical School, Italy).


Giuliana Tomasella (PhD, Professor of Museology, Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music, University of Padua, Italy).

Enrique Zofío Dávila, end of 19th century, University Complutense Madrid, (Foto: Ballestriero R.)