Rongioletti Franco Professore OrdinarioMedicineMed/35 - Dermatologia

A little profile

• Prof. Franco Rongioletti is dermatologist, venereologist and anatomo-pathologist. He was first assistant in training at the Dermatological Clinic of Strasbourg in the years 1984-85. Subsequently he was Assistant Professor at the Dermatological Clinic of the University of Genoa up to the role of Associate Professor at the University of Genoa where he remained until 2015. Since 2016 he has been Full Professor and Director of the Dermatological Clinic of the University of Cagliari and Director of the School of Specialization in Dermatology of the University of Cagliari. He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Dermatology and Dermatological Surgery at the Miller University of Miami in Florida where he conducted research on inflammatory and degenerative diseases and on malignant skin tumors. He was "visiting professor" for research projects in various Dermatology and Dermatopathology Centers in the USA such as the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He has published in all the most prestigious international scientific journals of Dermatology and Medicine such as JAAD, Br J Dermatology, JEADV, Lancet. As of February 2021, his works have received more than 5500 citations with an H-index of 37 on Scopus.

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Education

• Graduated University of Genoa, 1982
• Board of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Genoa 1985,
• Board of Pathology, University of Siena 1994
• Board of Tropical Dermatology and Leprology, University of Genoa 1989

Professional Experience

• Foreigner Assistant Professor, Dept. Dermatology, University Strasbourg, France 1984/6
• Assistant Professor, Dept. Dermatology, University of Genoa, 1987-2004
• Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of Genoa 2005-2015
• Voluntary assistant Professor in Dermatology at the Miller University of Miami 2005-today
• Full Professor and Chairman, University of Cagliari, Italy 2015-2021
• Director, Residency Training Program in Dermatology and Venereology, University of Cagliari 2015-2021
• Coordinator of the Course of Dermatology/Infectious diseases of the School of Medicine at The University of Cagliari 2015-2021
• Member of the Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari 2015-2021
• Full Professor, San Raffaele Scientific Institute & San Raffaele Vita Salute University, Milan, Italy

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Professional Activities

•   Consultant  for clinics for outpatients at the Dermatological Clinic University of Genoa, IRCSS, University Hospital of S. Martino, Genoa
• Head for dermatological consultancy for inpatient patients at IRCSS, University Hospital of S. Martino, Genoa
•  Consultant and Head of Diagnostics in Dermatopathology at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy, University of Genoa (Prof. Roberto Fiocca) 2004-2015
•  Chairman of the Unit of Dermatology, Hospital/University of Cagliari 2015-2021

Major Fields of Interest:

• Clinical research, Dermatopathology, Cutaneous oncology, Skin tumors (melanoma, carcinomas, sarcomas),Deposition disorders, Metabolic and endocrinologic disorders;, Immunological diseases

Professional Honors

• Jean Civatte Dermatopathology Award 2005
•  PRIN 2008: PARTICIPANT IN THE RESEARCH PROGRAM: FUNCTIONAL EVALUATIONS OF GERMINAL MUTATIONS IN THE NON-CODING PORTIONS OF CDKN2A AND PTEN GENES FOUND IN ASSOCIATION WITH TUMOR SUSCEPTIBILITY
• Present in the list of TOP ITALIAN SCIENTISTS
  •  Google Scholar H-index 45 Citations 7647 i10 index 170
  • Area Dermatology-Medicine Macroarea Clinica Sciences (verified 01/02/2021

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• PRESIDENT, SPEAKER, CHAIRMAN OF NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL AND ITALIAN CONGRESSES ON DERMATOLOGY, DERMATOPATHOLOGY, ONCOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY FROM 1982 TO PRESENT
• MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN AND SPEAKER AT THE WORLD CONGRESS OF DERMATOLOGY, MILAN, 11-15 JUNE 2019
• REVIEWER OF ARTICLES FOR MAJOR DERMATOLOGICAL JOURNALS SUCH AS JAMA DERMATOLOGY, JAAD, BR J DERMATOL, J CUTAN PATHOL, AM J DERMATOPATHOL, MEDICINE,etc

1. Rongioletti F, Rebora A. Cutaneous reactive angiomatoses: patterns and classification of reactive vascular proliferation. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003;49(5):887-896. doi:10.1016/s0190-9622(03)02100-5
2. Rongioletti F, Cerroni L, Massone C, Basso M, Ciambellotti A, Rebora A. Different histologic patterns of cutaneous granulomas in systemic lymphoma. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2004;51(4):600-605. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2004.0024
3. Rongioletti F, Smoller BR. Unusual histological variants of cutaneous malignant melanoma with some clinical and possible prognostic correlations. J Cutan Pathol. 2005;32(9):589-60 doi:10.1111/j.0303-6987.2005.00418.x
4. Rongioletti F, Izakovic J, Romanelli P, Lanuti E, Miteva M. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like papillary dermal elastolysis: a large case series with clinicopathological correlation. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2012;67(1):128-135. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2011.09.008
5.  Rongioletti F, Merlo G, Cinotti E, et al. Scleromyxedema: a multicenter study of characteristics, comorbidities, course, and therapy in 30 patients. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2013;69(1):66-72. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2013.01.007
6.  Rongioletti F, Ferreli C, Pinna AL, Atzori L. Rare emerging malignant skin tumours. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2015 Aug;150(4):407-17. PMID: 26086411.
7. Knobler R, Moinzadeh P, Hunzelmann N, Kreuter A, Cozzio A, Mouthon L, Cutolo M, Rongioletti F, et al. European Dermatology Forum S1-guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of sclerosing diseases of the skin, Part 1: localized scleroderma, systemic sclerosis and overlap syndromes. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2017;31(9):1401-1424. doi:10.1111/jdv.14458
8. Gisondi P, Altomare G, Ayala F, Bardazzi F, Bianchi L, Chiricozzi A, Costanzo A, Conti A, Dapavo P, De Simone C, Foti C, Naldi L, Offidani A, Parodi A, Piaserico S, Prignano F, Rongioletti F, Stingeni L, Talamonti M, Girolomoni G. Italian guidelines on the systemic treatments of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2017 May;31(5):774-790. doi: 10.1111/jdv.14114. Epub 2017 Feb 27. PMID: 28244153.
9. Rongioletti F. Actinic keratoses: what classification is useful to predict the risk of progression? PROs and cons. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2019 Jun;33(6):983-984. doi: 10.1111/jdv.1564 PMID: 31124251.
10.  Guicciardi F, Atzori L, Marzano AV, Tavecchio S, Girolomoni G, Colato C, Villani AP, Kanitakis J, Mitteldorf C, Satta R, Cribier B, Gusdorf L, Rossi MT, Calzavara-Pinton P, Bielsa I, Fernandez-Figueras MT, Kempf W, Filosa G, Pilloni L, Rongioletti F. Are there distinct clinical and pathological features distinguishing idiopathic from drug-induced subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus? A European retrospective multicenter study. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2019 Aug;81(2):403-411. doi: 1016/j.jaad.2019.02.009. Epub 2019 Feb 11. PMID: 30763648.
11. Lazova R, Smoot K, Anderson H, Powell MJ, Rosenberg AS, Rongioletti F, Pilloni L, D'Hallewin S, Gueorguieva R, Tantcheva-Poór I, Obadofin O, Camacho C, Hsi A, Kluger HH, Fadare O, Seeley EH. Histopathology-guided mass spectrometry differentiates benign nevi from malignant melanoma. J Cutan Pathol. 2020 Mar;47(3):226-240. doi: 10.1111/cup.13610. Epub 2019 Nov 27. PMID: 31697431.
12. Argenziano G, Brancaccio G, Moscarella E, Dika E, Fargnoli MC, Ferrara G, Longo C, Pellacani G, Peris K, Pimpinelli N, Quaglino P, Rongioletti F, Simonacci M, Zalaudek I, Calzavara Pinton P. Management of cutaneous melanoma: comparison of the leading international guidelines updated to the 8th American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system and workup proposal by the Italian Society of Dermatology. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2020 Apr;155(2):126-145. doi: 10.23736/S0392-0488.19.06383-1. PMID: 32394673.
13. Rongioletti F. Primary paediatric cutaneous mucinoses. Br J Dermatol. 2020;182(1):29-38. doi:10.1111/bjd.18004
14. Kalli F, Cioni M, Parodi A, Altosole T, Ferrera F, Barra G, De Palma R, Fenoglio D, Filaci G, Rongioletti F. Increased frequency of interleukin-4 and reduced frequency of interferon-γ and IL-17-producing CD4+ and CD8+ cells in scleromyxedema. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2020 May;34(5):1092-1097. doi: 10.1111/jdv.16136. Epub 2020 Jan 7. PMID: 31912592.
15. Rongioletti F, Ferreli C, Atzori L, Smoller BR, Faa G, Kutzner H, Pilloni L. A previously undescribed variant of cutaneous clear-cell squamous cell carcinoma with psammomatous ca