Giorgio Walter Canonica#
| Membership Number: | 4863 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - today Full Professor Respiratory Diseases & Allergy –Humanitas University Milano-Italy
- 1998 - 2016 Full Professor of Respiratory Medicine & Chairman of the Allergy & Respiratory Diseases Clinic - Dept of Int Med, Genoa University – IRCCS AOU San Martino IST Genova
- 1995 - 1998 Full Professor of Internal Medicine, Dept of Int Medicine, Genoa University
- 1984/85 Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Basic and Clinical Immunology ( Dir. Prof.H.Fudenberg), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, U.S.A.
- 1982 - 1995 Associate Professor Allergy and Clinical Immunology - Dept. of Internal Medicine
- 1980 (6 months) Department of Immunology (Dir. Prof. H. Wigzell), University of Uppsala, Sweden
- 1977 - 1982 Assistant Professor Dept. of Internal Medicine – University of Genoa
- 1973 - 1977 Assistant Professor Pulmonary Diseases Clinic – University of Genoa - Italy
- 1970 (3 months) Department of Pulmonary Diseases (Dir. Prof. P. Sadoul), University of Nancy INSERM, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Biologics in Severe Asthma Treatment
- Patients Reported Outcomes & Quality of life evaluation in patients with respiratory and allergic diseases
- T Iymphocytes
- New antiallergic drugs and new strategies in the allergic disease treatment
- Molecular events and Interactions between immunocompetent cells, inflammatory cells, epithelial cells in allergic inflammation and airways remodelling
- Clinical and immunopharmacological activities of Biological Responses Modifiers
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Laurea Honoris Causa in Medicine Cluj - Napoca University - Rumenia
- 2013 World Allergy Organization: Gold Medal Award
- 2015 World Allergy Organization: Award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution
- 2018 World Allergy Organization: Distinguished Service Award
- 2014 Interasma-Global Asthma Association: Honaorary Award
- President:
- World Allergy Organization (WAO) 2007-2009
- Interasma-Global Asthma Association 2014-2016
- Honorary Memberships:
- Academy of Medical Sciences of Rumania
- SLAAI-Latin American Society of Allergy ,Asthma & Immunology
- South African Society of Allergy
- Finnish Society of Allergy
- Hungarian Society of Allergy
- Argentinian Society of Allergy
- Rumanian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology
- Fellow European Respiratory Society – FERS
- Fellow & Distinguished International Member American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - FACAAI
- Fellow American Academy of Allergy,Asthma and Immunology - FAAAAI
- Fellow American College of Chest Physicians - FACCP
