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
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