Martino Ruggieri

Martino Ruggieri was born in Catania on 21st April 1962. He has been educated in Catania and took his school leaving certificate [classical studies] cum laude in Catania in 1981. He is married and has two sons. He is Full Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics [since 2015] at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry, University of Catania and Director [since 2016] of the Unit of Rare Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood at the AOU "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Italy. He has been Associate Professor of Paediatrics [since 2009] and Vice-Director [2010-2014]at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Catania; he has been Vice-Director [2012-2014] at the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania. He took his Specialty in Paediatrics [Catania, 1995], his PhD in paediatric sciences [Catania/Oxford, 2000] and did his specialty, PhD and postgraduate training in Pediatric Neurology/Neurogenetics [1995-2000] at the Departments of Medical Genetics/Pediatric Neurology, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, UK and Department of Neurology/Neurogenetics, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard University, Boston, USA. He was editor of an international treatise: “Neurocutaneous Disorders: Phakomatoses and Hamartoneoplastic Syndromes” (Springer, 2008; forthcoming 2nd edition, 2018); he will be editor of two international books “Immune-mediated Disorders of the Nervous System in Childhood” (Springer-Verlag, 2018) and "Neurofibromatosis type 2 and related disorders" (Springer/Verlag, 2018). He is editor of six Italian textbooks of pediatrics, pediatric neurology, child neuropsychiatry, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis and history of pediatrics. He is author > 200 international peer-reviewed articles [I.F. = 649; h-index = 31; hc = 16]. He was Deputy Editor: J Brach Plex Periph Nerve Inj [2006-2010]; Associate Editor: Child Nerv Syst [2007-2011] and The Child [since 2012]; member of board: Behavioural Neurology [since 2014] and Prospettive in Pediatria [since 2012]. He is currently President of the Italian Paediatric Neuroimmunology Study Group (GNIP); founding member of the International Paediatric Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (IPMSSP); Italian member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCP); member of board of the "Gruppo di Studio di Storia della Pediatria" (GSSP), SIP. Two complex malformation syndromes bear his name: (a) with skin mosaicism of the “cutis tricolor” type [Ruggieri-Happle syndrome: Eur J Pediatr 2000; 159:745-749]; and (b) with mixed/paired vascular nevi [Ruggieri-Leech syndrome: Am J Med Genet 2012; 150A:1870-1880].