Piergiacomo Calzavara Pinton, MD, PhD is Chairman of the School of Dermatology at the University of Brescia since 2004 & Chairman of the Department of Dermatology of the AO Spedali Civili di Brescia since 2003. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Milan in July 1980, magna cum laude. He completed School of Specialization in Dermatology at the University of Milan in July 1983. He is Full Professor of Dermatology at the University of Brescia since December 2015.
He participated at several Italian Ministerial projects (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993). From 2008 to 2012 he took part in the European Project V Framework Program for the Research and Technological Development of the European Union, entitled “Reflectance Confocal microscopy. From 2014 he is the referee of the Italian Ministery of University for the evaluation of the research in Dermatology.
He is the past president of Past President of the Italian Society of Dermatology (SIDEMAST) and Member of the Board of Directors of European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV); European Society of PhotoDermatology (ESPD); Italian Society of Photobiology (SIF); and Italian Group of Epidemiological Studies in Dermatology (GISED)
Since 1985 he practices research mainly in the field of Phototherapy, Photochemotherapy, Photodermatology, Psoriasis, Connective tissue diseases, Non-invasive diagnostic techniques, Skin tumours.
So far, Piergiacomo Calzavara-Pinton published 328 full papers on peer reviewed journals cited on PubMed, 354 on Scopus
55 chapters of book and over 200 abstracts in national and international congresses and conferences.