Dr. Teresa Rago

Teresa Rago was born in Tricarico (MT) on 20 January 1960.

1978Teaching Diploma (Maturità Magistrale) at the Istituto Gesù Eucaristico in Tricarico

1979Qualification, supplementary course

1979-80enrolled on the degree course in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa

19 October 1987degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa, with a thesis entitled "Congenital coronary anomalies in children".

November 1987licence to practise as a physician and surgeon.

October 1993Specialisation in Endocrinology at the University of Pisa, graded 50/50 with honours, with a thesis entitled "Treatment of the autonomous thyroid nodule by percutaneous alcohol injection".

1995-1999 Research doctorate (PhD) in Endocrinological and Metabolic Sciences, 17-03-2000

University career

1. From 1986 to the present, internal physician at the Institute of Endocrinology, Clinical Methodology and Occupational Medicine of the University of Pisa

2. From 1990 to the present, at the Institute of Endocrinology, Clinical Methodology and Occupational Medicine of the University of Pisa, she has worked in the outpatient clinics for endocrine disorders, performing ultrasound scans and fine-needle aspirations and gaining considerable practical experience.

3. 1993-1997 Freelance contract at the Epidemiological Observatory for the epidemiology of goitre and thyroid diseases, at the hospital of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Lucca ASL 5)

4. Cultore della Materia (honorary subject expert) in "Endocrinology" by resolution no. 31 of 14.02.1995 of the faculty council, for the three years 1995-1997.

5. Contract professor at the School of Specialisation in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Endocrinology track, for the academic year 2002-2003.

6. Lecturer on a training course for general practitioners of the Pisa Local Health Authority (USL 5) for the year 2003

C. Clinical activity

1. From 1987 to 1993 internal physician as a specialist trainee at the Institute of Endocrinology, Clinical Methodology and Occupational Medicine of the University of Pisa

2. 1993-1997 freelance contract under an agreement between ASL 5 of Lucca and the University of Pisa.

3. From 1987 to the present internal physician at the Institute of Endocrinology, Clinical Methodology and Occupational Medicine.

4. From 1990 to the present internal physician at the Institute of Endocrinology, Clinical Methodology and Occupational Medicine of the University of Pisa, she has devoted her work to performing ultrasound scans and fine-needle aspirations, gaining considerable practical experience.

5. Locum for a contracted general practitioner with more than one hundred patients

From 29-8-1989 to 18-9-1989;

from 2-1-1990 to 17-1-1990;

from 8-5-1990 to 23-5-1990

from 31-8-1990 to 20-9-1990

6. From 12-10-2000 she has worked as a Consultant physician at the Endocrinology 1 Unit of the AOUP.

Time spent abroad

1. January 1999 to March 1999 Special Course in Cytopathology at the Department of Pathology of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

E. Scholarships and Contracts

1. 1994Awarded an annual Bracco scholarship

2. 1993-1997 clinical and research activity at the Epidemiological Observatory for goitre and thyroid diseases at the hospital of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, under an agreement between ASL 5 of Lucca and the University of Pisa.

F. Refresher and advanced training courses

1. February-May 88 "Outpatient emergencies", held at the University of Pisa from 21.

2. 21 February - 28 May 1989 "Rheumatic disease in the elderly" at the University of Pisa.

3. 23 February - 18 May 1989 "Diabetes" held at the University of Pisa.

4. 21-22 October 1993 Cytodiagnostics course at the Cytodiagnostics service of the University of Padua.

5. 4 March - 30 September 1993 Theoretical and practical course in internal medicine ultrasound, at the Surgical Clinic of the University of Pisa.

6. 6-8 March 1997 Practical course in Colour Doppler ultrasound, at the Diagnostic Imaging Institute of the Hospital of Como.

7. 29 November 1999 seminar no. 106 "Telomeres and Telomerase in Oncology" at the National Cancer Institute of Milan.

8. 10-12 June 2001 Practical course in 3-dimensional ultrasound, at MedCom Gesellschaft für Medizinische Bildverarbeitung, Darmstadt, Germany, Prof. Georgios Sakas.

8. 11 October 2001 CnTI Consensus Conference on contrast media in ultrasound, at the Esaote Study Centre, Florence.

Clinical and research activity

Since her student days Dr. Teresa Rago has attended the ward and laboratory of the Institute of Endocrinology, Clinical Methodology and Occupational Medicine of the University of Pisa. She has undergone long specific training in the outpatient clinics for endocrine disorders, in particular thyroid diseases, and in performing ultrasound scans and fine-needle aspirations, gaining considerable clinical experience.

She has also carried out clinical and experimental research in the endocrine-metabolic field, with particular attention to autoimmune phenomena in thyroid diseases, endemic goitre and nodular disease, and iodine deficiency disorders. She took an active part in epidemiological surveys conducted by the Institute in Tuscany and Basilicata.

Dr. Rago's research in this field has focused above all on the study of patients with endemic goitre, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Graves' disease. Regarding endemic goitre, some particular epidemiological aspects were considered.

In her clinical research she used conventional thyroid ultrasound and colour Doppler ultrasound as diagnostic support in autoimmune thyroid diseases and nodular disease.

She has also gained wide experience in the technique and use of fine-needle aspiration in nodular thyroid disease.

Contacts

rago@endoc.med.unipi.it