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Educational and Professional Curriculum of
Dr. Felice Apicella.
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1-training and qualifications
2-scientific activity
3-training and teaching activity
4-military service
5-professional activity
6-managerial activity
7-work abroad
8-membership of professional scientific societies
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10-updating activities
Dr Felice Apicella, born in S. Vitaliano (NA) on 20 April 1946, is resident and domiciled in Florence. He is a full-time medical director of General Surgery, general and thoracic surgeon, employed at the 1st General Surgery Unit of the New Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio" in Florence, via Torregalli n.3, switchboard tel. 055/71921, of the Health Authority 10 of Florence.
Registered in the Register of Surgeons of the Province of Florence
1-Education and Qualifications:
-Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Florence in 1972;
-Expertise in Internal Ultrasound (diagnostic and interventional),1978;
-Internship with Prof HHHolm, Copenhagen-Denmark, Herlev Hospital, for interventional ultrasound in September 1978.
-Specialization in General Surgery in 1979;
-Specialization in Endocrine Surgery in 1982;
-National Eligibility as Chief of General Surgery in 1983;
-Specialization in Thoracic Surgery in 1985;
-Suitable result in the competition for Chief of General Surgery, 1988, USL n.4 (Castelnuovo Garfagnana);
-Specialization in Thoracic Surgery (EEC standards) 1992;
-Internship in St. Louis (Missouri-USA), August+September 1991; 60-day internship at the Thoracic Surgery Department and Lung Transplant Center directed by Dr J. Cooper, Washington University;
-Diploma in Videosurgery-Minimally Invasive Surgery from the Louis Pasteur University ULP validated by the Confederation of Upper Rhine Universities EUCOR and Accredited by the French Society of Digestive Surgery SFCD (Strasbourg, May 1995);
-Suitable result in the competition for Chief of General Surgery, 1996, Health Authority 11 of Empoli;
-Suitable result in the competition for Chief of General Surgery, 1997, Health Authority 10 of Florence;
- Corporate organizational assignment for Thoracic Surgery, ASL 10 of Florence, 1998.
-ATLS Certificate , ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) refresher course from the American College of Surgeons, Pisa, 1999.
-Title of "FCCP" from the American College of Chest Physicians, 1999.
-Suitable result for the competition for Head of General Surgery, June 2000, Health Authority 9 of Grosseto.
-Suitable result for the competition for Head of General Surgery, August 2000, Health Authority 10 of Florence.
-Certificate "Refresh course ATLS", Pisa, June 2003.
-Specialization course "Clinical Governance", University of Florence, Department of Public Health, May/June 2004.