Lucia Spicuzza
1994
MD, School of Medicine, University of Catania, Italy. Thesis: Role of exhaled nitric oxide in asthma
1998
Post Graduate Degree in Respiratory Medicine - Institute of Respiratory Diseases, University di Catania.
Thesis: Molecular mechanisms of beta2-adrenergic receptor function in the airways
2001
PhD, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, University of Napoli,
Thesis: Control of ventilation and autonomic dysfunction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Research appointments
1996 - 1997
Research Fellow at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Thoracic Medicine, Imperial C college, London, UK
1998
Honorary Research Assistant at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Thoracic Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK
1999
Honorary Research Assistant at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Thoracic Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK
1999-2005
Several periods of clinical research at the Autonomic Nervous System Labor-atory,
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy
Academic Year 2021/2022
- DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adaptative motor activities - 1st Year
MALATTIE CARDIOVASCOLARI E RESPIRATORIE - DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences - 2nd Year
SCIENZE BIOLOGICHE MEDICHE E CHIRURGICHE - DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Bachelor's Degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique - 3rd Year
NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO ENDOCRINOLOGIA CHIRURGIA GENERALE NEUROCHIRURGIA E MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE - DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 3rd Year
PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO - canale 4 - DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 3rd Year
TIROCINIO PROFESSIONALIZZANTE III ANNO - canale 3 - DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 3rd Year
TIROCINIO PROFESSIONALIZZANTE III ANNO - canale 4 - DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Bachelor's Degree in Midwifery - 1st Year
MALATTIE APPARATO RESPIRATORIO PATOLOGIA GENERALE E MICROBIOLOGIA
Academic Year 2020/2021
- DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adaptative motor activities - 1st Year
MALATTIE CARDIOVASCOLARI E RESPIRATORIE - DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences - 2nd Year
SCIENZE BIOLOGICHE MEDICHE E CHIRURGICHE - DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Bachelor's Degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique - 3rd Year
NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO ENDOCRINOLOGIA CHIRURGIA GENERALE NEUROCHIRURGIA E MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE - DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 3rd Year
PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO - canale 4
Academic Year 2019/2020
- DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adaptative motor activities - 1st Year
MALATTIE CARDIOVASCOLARI E RESPIRATORIE - DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences - 2nd Year
SCIENZE BIOLOGICHE MEDICHE E CHIRURGICHE - DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 3rd Year
PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO - canale 4
Academic Year 2018/2019
- DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adaptative motor activities - 1st Year
MALATTIE CARDIOVASCOLARI E RESPIRATORIE
Sleep medicine. Control of breathing, hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory response. Cardio-respiratory interaction. Cardiovascular and autonomic nervous system control in sleep breathing disorders. Ventilatory control in patients with heart failure. High altitude medicine and chronic mountain sickness. Sleep disorders at high-altitudes. Sleep disorders in cystic fibrosis. Peadiatric sleep apnea. Bronchial asthma and airway pharmacology in vitro and in vivo. Adenosine and airways.
Scientific societies
British Thoracic Society, American College of Chest Physicians
Società Italiana di Medicina Respiratoria, Società italiana malattie respiratorie infantili
Referee for the following journals
•European Respiratory Journal
•British Journal of Pharmacology
•Chest
•Am J Respir Crit Care Med
•Monaldi Archives of Chest Diseases