Nadia is Pediatric Cardiologist at "Ospedale del Cuore" G. Monasterio Foundation (founded by Italian National Research Council and Tuscany Region). She is a member of the societies of Paediatric Cardiology, Echocardiography and Pediatry. [...]

She is a member of the National Study on the Acyclovir treatment in paediatric population (1993) and Since 2012 she is a member of the project on “fetal cardiosurgery” in collaboration with “Istituto Superiore S. Anna” in Pisa. She is involved in the multicenter study supported by the italian society of paediatric cardiology, on the metabolic disease in children and in AdriHealthMob project (IPA Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme). From 2002 she is member of a team of a paediatric cardiological and cardiosurgical unit working in periodical mission in: Palestina, Libia, Yemen, Balcan area, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Cambodia. He has conducted training in fetal echocardiography in Bosnia, Albania and Romania teaching in the field of fetal echocardiography. She is currently the project manager for the "prevention, monitoring and treatment of rheumatic disease in children Eritreans". She coordinated the project of "telemedicine in the Balkan area", supported by the Tuscan Region and has also conducted virtual education events to Cabo Verdean Telemedicine and e-Health Network directed to gynecologists, radiologists and pediatricians using the telemedicine centers located in the inhabited islands of Cabo Verde (International Virtual e-Hospital Foundation). She is part of the organizing committee of the association "Un Cuore Un Mondo" that supports from the logistical and financial part, most of international cooperation activities. From 2005 to 2009 have been teaching at the International Heart school of the Italian National Research Council for foreign doctors in the fields of Paediatric Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and related Anaesthesia. He has conducted training in fetal echocardiography in Bosnia, Albania and Romania teaching in particular "fetal echocardiography". In collaboration with the organization “Save the Children”, she organized courses in “early diagnosis of congenital heart disease” for gynecologists, cardiologists and neonatologists in Romania to create a network for recognition and treatment of newborn and children with congenital heart disease. Since Genuary 2014 is a tutor for the certification of competence in pediatric echocardiography of the Italian Society of Echocardiography (SIEC). In 2014 she received a certificate of merit for professionalism and experience in early diagnosis of congenital hert disease from Durres Spetali Rajonal and a prize for scientific research for her commitment to sick children who live in poor areas of the world from F.I.D.A.P.A. Association.

Francesca comes from a legal background with specific competence in management and organization in the Healthcare Service. She is responsible of the Service for Health Internationalization and relations with EU. [...]

As Manager of the "Accreditation, Quality, and Research" sector for the Puglia Regional Healthcare Agency in Italy, she supports senior management in procedures related to Health Service planning to guarantee the essential level of healthcare delivery. She is a Qualified Lead Auditor and responsible for the Quality Assessment of healthcare delivery at a Regional level.She is a member of the Regional Commission (Multi professional equipe) responsible for the implementation of the Integrated Chronic Care Model in Puglia, also known as the "Care Programme" and she is working on the definition of policies and strategies to tackle health inequalities.She is "Executive chair" of the Interregional Group on Health in the Committee of the Regions ∙ in Bruxelles. She is Committed to Action B3 in the EC initiative "EIP on AHA", and following the governance approach the action Group has adopted to date, a member of the Coordination Group. After the adoption by the European Commission of the Action Plan on the 6th of November 2012, she was appointed as leader of the "Action Area 6 ∙ Patient/user empowerment, health education and health promotion".

Hrvoje Belani, MSc EE, graduated from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in 2003 where he majored in telecommunications and informatics. [...]

He is an experienced software engineer and architect, with advanced knowledge in software methods and processes, requirements engineering and business process modelling, as well as EU project management. From 2010 he works as a senior inspector for informatics in IT division of HZZO and as information security officer there. He has finished Academy for Political Development of the Council of Europe, as well as UN Academy. He is an adjunct lecturer in information systems development and computer architecture at VERN' University of Applied Sciences. He is also a PhD student at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia.

Nico Bruining started his career in 1985, after completing his technical computer sciences studies, as a cathlab technician working with Professor's P.W. Serruys and de Feyter at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1993 he joined the department of experimental and clinical informatics at the Thoraxcenter as a researcher with as focus cardiovascular imaging. [...]

He was involved in the early developments of three-dimensional (3-D) echocardiography, culminating in 1998 with the defense of his PhD thesis - “Quantitative 3-D Echocardiography of the Heart and the Coronary Vessels” under the promotorship of Prof. J.R.T.C Roelandt. He currently holds the position of assistant professor at the Erasmus MC within the Thoraxcenter of where he is now head of the department of clinical and experimental information processing. Besides the application of information technology, especially focused on novel and innovative techniques, within Cardiology his research field of interest are translational experimental studies (bench and model based) and clinical studies evaluating novel pharmaceutical and interventional therapies such as by example involvement in the first drug-eluting stents (around the year 2000) and more currently bioresorbable scaffolds and transcatheter valve implantations (TAVI). This research also incorporates development of new quantitative tools for imaging modalities combined with hemodynamic parameters. Since 2000 he is also active within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) at first as a nucleus member of the working group of e-Cardiology of which he was chairman from 2008-2010. Since 2006 he is a fellow of the ESC. Currently, he is nucleus member of the WG e-Cardiology and member of the ESC e-communications committee and represents the ESC in the DICOM medical imaging standardization committee. He is also member of the task-forces within the ESC of ESCARDIO 3 (the new website) and e-Health. He is Deputy Editor of EuroIntervention and editorial board member of several other journals amongst which the European Heart Journal and Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. He also holds memberships to both the EACVI and the EAPCI.

Graduated in Computer Science in 1996 at the University of Pisa, since 2000 he is technologist at the Institute of Clinical Phisiology (IFC) of the italian National Research Council (CNR) where he worked on system integration, Unix system and network administration with particular regards to ICT security and privacy issues and digital identities management. Nowadays he is head of the unit responsible for the ICT and the information systems. [...]

Thanks to the experience achieved in planning and development of an information system for the management of External Quality Assessment Schemes for Laboratory Medicine, in October of 2006, he founded the "QualiMedLab" company, as CNR spin-off, with CNR itself, colleagues and private partners. QualiMedLab provides several EQA programs, in partnership with foreign providers, for hundreds of participants.Since 2006, until 2013, he was involved in the planning and creation of "IDEM", the federated authentication and authorisation infrastructure, for the italian universities and research centres, sponsored by GARR, the Italian Academic and Research telecommunication network provider. He is involved in research projects on the topic of ICT and Health (Medical360, POR CrEO FESR 2007-2013; DAHFNE, POR CrEO FESR 2007-2013; AdriHealthMob, IPA Adriatic Cross Border Programme 2007-2013).

Marco d’Angelantonio holds a degree in Physics but he dedicated most of his professional life to IT in fields as disparate as banking, public services, transports and social and health care. [...]

After 21 years of career in the Italian Group Olivetti in 1997 he founded HIM S.A. of which he is major shareholder Chairman and Managing Director. He has master-minded and managed several EU projects mostly in the fields of eHealth and eInclusion with a special focus on elderly care and management of chronic diseases in home setting. Among these there are the largest multidimensional studies of telehealth and telecare impact ever carried out in Europe: RENEWING HEALTH (RCT with 7.000 chronic patients); United4Health (controlled trial with 13.000 chronic patients) and SmatrCare (controlled trial with 8.500 elderly people).

Emanuele Frontoni joined the Dept. of Information Engineering (DII) at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), as a Ph.D. student in "Intelligent Artificial Systems". [...]

He obtained his PhD in 2006 discussing a thesis on Vision Based Robotics. At present he has an Assistant Professor position in the same department. His research focuses on applying artificial intelligence and computer vision to e-health, mobile robotics and reality mining. He is a member of IEEE, MESA, GIRPR and AI*IA.

Medicine and Surgery Degree at University of Pisa, Postgraduate Specialization in General Surgery and Experimental Surgery PhD at University of L’Aquila, Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) Certification at Transplantation Committee of the Council of Europe, University of Barcelona, San Marino (San Marino), Master Euro-Project Designing and Managing, EUPF Register of Euro-Projects Designers and Managers at Europe Project Forum Foundation, Europe Cube Innovation Business School, Rome, Brussels (Italy). [...]

Clinical Researcher and Project Manager on Telemedicine and technological innovations projects and systems for Italian CNR (National Centre for Researches), University of Pisa and L’Aquila, for MedSMART, Ann Arbor MI (US) and Michigan University MI (US), SSGRR L’Aquila, private Technical and Management School dedicated to ICT. Clinico-surgical activities in different Hospitals at L’Aquila, Avezzano, Popoli, Formia. Manager of experimental projects and programs of the National Transplant Centre at ISS (Italian National Health Institute). Expert consultant for European Commission, ICT for Health, 6FP e 7FP at Brussels. From 2007, Surgical Consultant at Department of General Surgery “P. Stefanini”, Umberto I General Hospital of Rome; “Meritorious” Consultant for Urgent Surgery of the International Radio-Medical Centre, surgical second opinion for seagoing staffs telehealthcare. Member of the National Executive Board, Deputy CEO of the Italian Society of Telemedicine (SIT). Founder and General Manger of TeleMedicine EuroProject Group (TMEPG) at Rome TMEPG, R&D professional group dedicated to design, project, build and manage Telemedicine systems and services.

Project director with 15 year of experience and more than 20.000 hours in project management and IT management. Large experience in preparation and management of EU R&D projects. Expert in coordination of major strategic projects and programs, which includes responsibilities such as strategic management, administrative operations, preparing work break down structure and technical or financial duties. [...]

Good at project management; team building; project accounting; formal, informal and crisis communication, people management, leadership and target orientation. Applying wide-scope of project management knowledge and experiences with new agile IT project management approaches (e.g. Scrum). Preparation of new templates, instructions and education for project management and business analytics. Specialized in domain knowledge of healthcare information systems and medicine informatics. Rich knowledge and experience with IHE and HL7 integration projects and project in implementation of blood bank information systems and blood bank laboratory information systems. Last 3 years has been working as consultant and project director of national project for implementation of strategic information system for Slovenian blood bank and laboratory. Role on this project required experienced and tough project manager skills and innovative binding healthcare consultant. Work includes analysing and documenting blood bank and laboratory workflows. With main goal to enable end user to complete his work with all needed information in shortest time possible.

Engineer with a PhD in Biomedical Technologies and a Master in Management. He is a Technologist at the Italian National Research Council - Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies and Head of a Research Unit in Brindisi. [...]

His area of interest include Research in the health sector (Analysis of health care paths, Process Modelling, Health Technology Assessment) and Project Management (projects preparation for fund raising – at national and European level; technical coordination of research projects; management of administrative, economic and reporting issues). Before becoming a Researcher at the National Research Council he worked as a Consultant for several public organisations such as the Italian National Health Institute, University Hospital of Bari, Hospital of Padua, Local Health Area of Brindisi. He acted as a Project Manager in several National and European Projects, in the latter case funded under either the Framework Program for Research and Technological Development or the Programme of Community action in the field of Public Health. He is currently project Manager in the Project Platform for sharing best practices for management of rare diseases funded by the European Commission and Coordinated by the National Health Institute.

Graduated in 1979 in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa, with specialisations in "Surgery of the heart and great vessels" and "General surgery and emergency first aid", since 2003 he is head of the Unit for Pediatric Heart Surgery at Tuscany Foundation "G. Monasterio ", formerly Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council (CNR), founded by CNR and Tuscany Region. [...]

Since 2009 he is director of the Pediatric Department at the same foundation. Since 2007 until 2009 he was president of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery. In different periods, since 1982 until 1986, he carried out his activity at the Harley Street Clinic - The Hospital for Sick Children - London and, next, at the Clinic Marie Lannelongue Paris directed by Prof. Planchè. Since 1982, Dr. Murzi is entitled as Medical Practitioner, at the British General Medical Council. As physician of the Italian Red Cross he participated in several medical missions in Albania operating, in Circulation Extra Corporeal, at the Central Hospital of Tirana, children with heart diseases. He was involved in medical missions as Head Heart Surgeon in Yugoslavia, Romania, Libya, Yemen, operating pediatric cardiac surgery patients. Bruno Murzi is the author of several publications on national and international journals on the topic of cardiac surgery for adult and pediatric.

Ilir has 10 years of experience in European Territorial Cooperation, especially in the Adriatic Ionian Region. Has worked as Project Manager since 2005, with different public entities , like Marche Regional Authorities, Svim Spa, OICS, Forum of Adriatic Ionian Chambers of Commerce, Municipality of Grottammare, AnconAmbiente Spa etc. [...]

Since 2008 is working in Cooss Marche, where actually is Senior Project Manager and responsible of Balkan Area Activities. Putting together his Medicine & Surgery University Studies and EU Cooperation Projects , is actually specialized in EU Project Management in Health and Care Sector, in particular in Exploitation of ICT in Health & Care; Silver Industry and Internationalization of Care Models; Public Private Partnership in Health & Care.

Dr. Pietro Siciliano received his degree in physics in 1985 from the University of Lecce. He took the Ph.D. in Physics in 1989 at the University of Bari. He is currently a Director of Research at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM-CNR) at CNR in Lecce, where he has been working from many years in the field of Sensors, MEMS, Micro/Nanosystems, being in charge of the Sensors and Micro/Nanosystems group. [...]

He is author of about 350 scientific papers. Dr. Siciliano is referee and member of the advisory board of international journals. He has been responsible for several national and international projects at IMM-CNR. He is member of the Steering Committee of AISEM, the Italian Association on Sensors and Microsystems. He is Director of the Section in Lecce of IMM-CNR. He is President of the Italian Association on “Ambient Assisted Living” (AitAAL), Responsible of “INNOVAAL”, the Public-Private Partnership on Active & Assisted Living and President of the National Technological Cluster for “Smart Living Technologies”

Alessandro Taddei started his career in 1977, after he completed his studies at University of Pisa achieving the Doctoral degree in Electronic Engineering. In 1978 he joined the Institute of Clinical Physiology of National Research Council in Pisa where he was involved up today in research projects, mainly concerning biomedical engineering (medical instrumentation, cardiovascular signal processing) and medical informatics (clinical information systems, telemedicine in cardiology). [...]

List of main projects and research & development activities Telemedicine networks for diagnosis and care of cardiac malformations (the network developed since 2014 in Tuscany region jointly with Lions International; the EC Adriatic-IPA ADRIHEALTHMOB project, since 2013; the Balkan network with the support of “Associazione un Cuore un Mondo” and Tuscany Region, since 2008); Clinical Information Systems (medical records in cardiology, cardiac surgery, anesthesia and intensive care unit, clinical registers, web based clinical data warehousing and processing, since 2000); Standards for assessing performances of analyzers of ischemic changes in long term ECG (The “European STT Database” multicenter project, starting in 1985, developed and distributed with support of ESC, until 2009; The “Long term ST database”, jointly developed with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ∙ Boston, USA and University of Ljubljana, 1997-2001); CNR Short Term Mobility, Harvard/MIT Div.Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2006); Medical record system in cardiology (SPERIGEST Min.Sanità, art.12 D.Lgs.502/92), 1996-98; Bilateral project, CNR Italy USA “Standards for assessing performances of ECG ischemia detectors” IFC/CNR Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge (1995∙96); MURST Telemedicine project (1995∙97); Doctorate Commission in Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1994∙1997); CNR/NATO Fellowship Biomedical Engineering Center of Harvard-MIT Division Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (1990). Currently he is a fellow of ESC and was nucleus member of ESC WG Computers in Cardiology (2000∙2008). He also holds memberships to both the AITIM and SIT.