Conigliaro Paola

personal data

n  NATIONALITY: Italian

n  DATE OF BIRTH: 22 April, 1978

n  PLACE OF BIRTH: Siracusa – ITALY

n  E-MAIL: paola.conigliaro@uniroma2.it

Lecturer in Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in University of Rome Tor Vergata

July 1996

November 2002

September 2003

November 2002-

October 2006

November 2005-

August 2006

February 2006-

August 2008

August 2006-

August 2008

September 2006

August 2008

December 2006

November 2014

March 2008-March 2011

May-2011-May 2014

From March 2015

·       Scientific High School Diploma

·       Degree of Medical Doctor at Sapienza University of Rome – Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Italy

Thesis title: Role of IL-18 in Sjögren Syndrome

      Graduating mark: 110/110 SUMMA CUM LAUDE

·       Passed state board exams for Medicine and Surgery

Graduating mark: 109/110

·       Specialist Registrar in the Rheumatology Training School, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

·       Visiting scientist in the Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation under the supervision of Prof. Iain McInnes, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

·       Visiting scientist in the Centre for Biophotonics under the supervision of Prof. Paul Garside, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

·       Fully registered medical practitioner, GMC reference number: 6151869

·       Clinical Research Fellowship in the Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation, University of Glasgow

·       EU Degree of Specialist in Rheumatology at Sapienza University of Rome – Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (CCST equivalent)

Graduating mark: 70/70 SUMMA CUM LAUDE

·       PhD in Immunology, University of Glasgow. Project title: “Dissecting the roles played by dendritic cells, B and T lymphocytes in mediating inflammatory arthropathies” with the supervision of Professors Iain McInnes and Paul Garside

·       Lecturer in Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in University of Rome Tor Vergata

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2012-2013 and

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2014-2015

2013-2014

2013-2014

2013-2014

2012-2013

2010-2011

·       Systemic Autoimmune Diseases at Specialist Registrar in the Immunology and Allergology Training School, University of Rome Tor Vergata

·       Rheumatology at Faculty of “Scienze e Tecniche delle Attività Motorie Preventive e Adattate”, University of Rome Tor Vergata

·       Allergology and Clinical Immunology at Italian Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata

·       Rheumatology at Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata

·       Allergology and Clinical Immunology at Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University Nostra Signora del Buon Consiglio, Tirana, Albania

·       Allergology and Clinical Immunology at English Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Graduate and Postgraduate Supervision:

·       Effects of physical exercise in patients affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis: an observational and longitudinal study

·       Complement system in patients affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis treated with Tocilizumab

·       Multidisciplinary approach in enteropathic spondiloarthritis patients: usefulness of a combined rheumatologic and gastroenterologic assessment in a prospective study

·       Clinical remission in patients affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis treated with biogical agents

·       Serological markers in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients treated with Rituximab

·       Physical exercise in patients affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis

January 2000-

October 2005

November 2005-

August 2008

September 2006

From September 2008

Laboratory practice as undergraduate and postgraduate student in the Laboratory of Rheumatology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Laboratory practice in the Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation, University of Glasgow and in the Centre for Biophotonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Holder of Personal Licence to work on rodents & rabbits.  No. PIL 60/10781

Laboratory practice as a visiting scientist in the Laboratory of Rheumatology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Member of British Society of Immunology

n  Member of Italian Society of Rheumatology

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n  Reviewer of Plos One, Rheumatology, Immunology Letters, Autoimmunity, Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Open Arthritis Journal, Annals of Gastroenterology

November 1998-

November 2002

November 2002-

May 2003

November 2002- October 2005

November 2005-August 2008

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2013

June 2009

May 2010

Clinical practice as undergraduate student on the Immunology, Haematology, Rheumatology wards and out-patients Rheumatology Clinic in Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Post-graduate clinical training for the board exam in the wards of Medicine, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Clinical practice as post-graduate student at the Rheumatology ward, Day Hospital of Rheumatology, Clinic on emergency in rheumatology and early arthritis, on call duties in the General Medicine and Rheumatology wards, Director Prof. G. Valesini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Run the out-patient Rheumatology Clinic with on call duties in the ward of a Rheumatology as Clinical Research Fellow, Centre of Rheumatic Disease, Director Prof. R. Sturrock, University of Glasgow

Run the out-patient Rheumatology Clinic for Biologic treatments (Director Prof. R. Perricone), Policlinico Tor Vergata, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Run the out-patient Rheumatology Clinic for Connective Tissue Diseases (Director Prof. R. Perricone), in collaboration with Nephrology Unit (Dr. E. Staffolani) and Ophthalmology Unit (Dr. M. Cesareo), Policlinico Tor Vergata, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Run the out-patient collaborative Rheumatology-Gastroenterology Clinic (Rheumatology Director Prof. R. Perricone, Unit of Gastroenterology Director Prof. G. Monteleone) for patients affected by enteropathic spondiloarthritis, Policlinico Tor Vergata, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Experience in musculoskeletal sonography at Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Rheumatology Clinic (Dr. A. Iagnocco), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Attendant of Sonography basic course in Muscoloskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology, Copenhagen, Denmark, EULAR 2009

Attendant of Sonography course in Muscoloskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology, Jesi, Italy

·        Immunoproteomic analyses to identify endothelial autoantigens in patients affected by rheumatic cadiopathy (Principal Investigator Dr. C. Alessandri), Sapienza Università di Roma, 2009, 2.400,00 euro

·        Protective effect of simvastatin on the endothelial activation anti-phospopholipid mediated (Principal Investigator Dr. C. Alessandri), Sapienza Università di Roma, 2008, 8.958,33 euro

·        Pro-coagulant and pro-atherogenic effect of anti-LBPA in patients affected by rheumatic autoimmune diseases (Principal Investigator Dr. C. Alessandri), Sapienza Università di Roma, 2008, 5.000,00 euro

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