Paolo Ciccarese, PhD
Personal Data:
- Citizenship ~ Italian
- Current Residency ~ Boston, USA
Appointments:
- PAST
- 2006 - 2007 ~ Research Fellow in Neurology,
Neurology Department, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, USA.
- 2006 - 2007 ~ Research Fellow in Neurology,
Harvard Medical School, Harvard
University, Boston, USA.
- 2006 - 2007 ~ Research Fellow in Medical Informatics,
Laboratory for Medical Informatics,
University
of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Education
- 2006 ~ PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
University
of Pavia, Italy, discussing the thesis:
The Guide Project: A Clinical Knowledge Management
Framework.
- 2002 ~ State exam for the qualification to the profession of Computer Science Engineer
- 2001 ~ Computer Science and Engineering Master Degree
University
of Pavia, Italy, discussing the thesis:
A tool for Clinical Practice Guidelines formalization
(Score: 110 out of 110).
- 1992 ~ Diploma from Istituto Tecnico Commerciale
Chiavenna, Sondrio, Italy (Score: 60 out of 60).
Advanced Formation:
- 2008 ~ Intensive Course on Biomedical Ontologies (by Professor Barry Smith).
- 2007 ~ Training Course in Logic for Biomedical Research (Organized by Professor Barry Smith).
- 2004 ~ GRID Computing: Foundamentals, tools e applications.
Health Grid Working Group.
- 2003 ~ Data Warehousing Fundamentals. Oracle Italy.
- 2003 ~ Data Warehouse Database Design. Oracle Italy.
- 2002 ~ Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML. Sun
Microsystem Italy.
Professional Activities:
- 2008 ~ Medicognos SA, Belgium. Knowledge Architecture Consultant.
- 2006 ~ Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy. Analysis,
design and implementation of the Italian network for amyloidosis.
- 2005 ~ Medilogix PgmbH, Belgium. Analysis and Design of the
architecture of a process based distributed electronic patient record.
- 2005 ~ Medicognos SA, Belgium. Analysis and design of a medical knowledge and workflow management framework with integrated DSS for quality, safety and disease management applications.
- 2005 ~ Arteram, Pavia, Italy. Developement of the website.
- 2004 ~ Palestra Verdelinea, Pavia, Italy. Developement of
the website.
- 2003 ~ Sergio Elia, Vendite e Finanziamenti Immobiliari,
Miano, Italy- Design and developement of a client-server information
and reporting system.
- 2001 - 2002 ~ Consorzio
di Bioingegneria e Informatica Pavese, Pavia, Italy.
Consultant for clinical decision support systems.
- 2000 ~ MAIDS (Motorcycle Accidents in Depth Study)
EUProject. Consultant for design and development of the software for
data exchange between data entry tools and statistical analysis tools.
Academic Teaching Assistance at the University of Pavia, Department of
Computer Engineering and Systems Science:
- 2005-2007 ~ Informatics: Object Oriented Analysis (Prof. Cristiana Larizza)
- 2004-2007 ~ Informatics: Java Fundamentals. (Prof. Cristiana Larizza)
- 2003-2007 ~ Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Clinical
Guidelines representation and dissemination (Prof. Mario Stefanelli)
- 2002-2005 ~ Medical Informatics: eXtended Markup Language (Prof. Riccardo Bellazzi)
Scientific Research Interests:
- Knowledge Management Methods and Tools
- Social Network Analysis
- Clinical Practice Guideline Computerization
- Business Process Languages
- Spatial and Temporal Abstractions
- Ontologies and Metadata
- Scientific Discourse and Scientific Web Communities
Scientific Projects and Collaborations:
- 2009 - today ~ Semantic Annotation Framework
- 2009 - today ~ Semantic Resources Project (in collaboration with Science Commons)
- 2009 ~ Editor of the SWAN/SIOC interest group note Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group @ W3C
- 2009 ~ Editor of the SWAN interest group note Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group @ W3C
- 2008 ~ SWAN-SIOC Integration - Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group @ W3C
- 2008 - today ~ SCF
Scientific Collaboration Framework @ Harvard Medical School
- 2006 - today ~ SWAN
Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine @ Massachusetts General Hospital
- 2006 ~ ROL (Rete Oncologica Lombarda -
Lombardia Oncological Network): evidence-based decision support focused on treatements compliance checking
- 2005 - today ~ Founder of the Java Data Processing
Framework (JDPF, Tempo evolution)
- 2005 - 2007 ~ AMYLOIDOSIS PROJECT:
Analysis, design and developement of an infrastructure for managing
communication and patient data collection from a network of hospitals;
an innovative electronic patient record with an unstructured database
and archetypes/templates meta models defined through RDF; a decision
support system for computerizing the clinical protocol.
- 2004 - 2007 ~ SIMILE
PROJECT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.
SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike
Environments): voluntary collaboration for the developement of the Welkin
RDF browser.
- 2002 - 2005 ~ MIUR - FIRB: Le tecnologie dell'informazione
e della comunicazione per la gestione dei processi di prevenzione, cura
e riabilitazione. In qualità di responsabile della
formalizzazione e automazione delle linee guida cliniche.
- 2002 - 2005 ~ Provincia autonoma di Trento - E-Heart
Failure: A guideline-based shared care through a computer-based
cooperative system for the management of heart failure. As responsible
of the design and developement of the guieline based decision support
system.
- 2002 - 2007 ~ THE GUIDE
PROJECT, component-based multi-level architecture designed to
integrate a formalized model of the medical knowledge contained in
clinical guidelines and protocols with both workflow management systems
and Electronic Patient Record technologies.
Random Conferences and Workshops:
- 2009 ~ 3rd Tinnitus Research Initiative Meeting, Stresa, Italy
- 2009 ~ Meeting on shared names for biomedical information records on the Web, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2008 ~ Workshop on biomedical ontologies, Dallas TX, USA. - Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes
- 2006 ~ AMIA 2006, Washington DC, USA. - Talk: A
Framework for Temporal Data Processing and Abstractions
- 2006 ~ Workshop Biomedical Ontology in Action, Baltimore,
Maryland, USA.
- 2006 ~ Workshop for W3C Semantic Web Health Care &
Life Sciences, Athens, GA, USA - Presentation of the SWAN
project.
- 2006 ~ Workshop for the European project PIPS, Cambridge,
UK - Invited talk: On Computerized Clinical Practice
Guidelines.
- 2006 ~ I Workshop on Technologies for Healthcare
& Healthy Lifestyle Proceedings, Valencia, Spain - Talk:
Tempo a Framework for temporal data processing and
abstractions.
- 2004 ~ Medinfo 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA - Talk:
A Guideline Management System.
- 2004 ~ IDAMAP 2004, Stanford University,
CA, USA - Talk: Genius: a new tool for gene networks
visualization.
- 2004 ~ MIE 2004, Special Topic
Conference: Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health. Munich,
Germany.
- 2004 ~ EuroMise 2004, Prague, Checz
Republic - Talk: A proposal for a method to improve the life
cycle of a CPG implementation.
- 2003 ~ Workshop on Medical Ontologies. Rome, Italy.
- 2003 ~ MIE 2003, Special Topic Conference: Electronic
Patient Records. Rome, Italy.
- 2003 ~ AIME 2003, Cyprus, Greece. Talk: The
NewGuide Project: Guidelines, Information Sharing and Learning from
Exceptions.
- 2002 ~ Advances in Clinical Knowledge Management 5, Cancer
Research UK, London, United Kingdom. Talk: New-Guide:
a new approach to representing clinical practice guidelines.
- 2001 ~ Methods for the Representation of
Computer-Interpretable Clinical Guidelines, Cancer Research UK, London,
United Kingdom.
- 2001 ~ Medinfo 2001, London, United Kingdom;
Latest talks:
- 2009, 25th June, Stresa, Italy
3rd Tinnitus Research Initiative Meeting
Tinnitusbook: a proposal for an advanced scientific web community for tinnitus research
- 2009, 23rd June, Brussels, Belgium
EU Workshop: Ontology-Driven Semantic Interoperability in eHealth
Semantics is not a luxury: Building the new generation of Clinical Information Systems
- 2009, 10th March, Cambridge, MA, USA
Cambridge Semantic Web Gatherings
SWAN Ontology 1.2
- 2008, 6th May, Portoroz, Slovenia
eHealth 2008, eHealth without frontiers
Medicognos knowledge and software solutions for continuity of care
- 2007, 26th May, Venice, Italy
Italian Society for Amyloidosis National Meeting
National Electronic Patient Record for Amyloidosis
- 2006, 12th November, Washington DC, USA
AMIA 2006
A Framework for Temporal Data Processing and Abstractions
- 2006, 20th June, Cambridge, UK
Invited talk for the Workshop for the EU project PIPS
The Guide Project
Research visits:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Libraries,
Cambridge, MA, USA
(October 2005)
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Medical
Informatics, CA, USA
(September 2004)
Publications:
- JOURNALS
- 2008 ~ The SWAN biomedical discourse ontology.
Paolo Ciccarese, Elizabeth Wu, Gwen Wong, Marco Ocana, June Kinoshita, Alan Ruttenberg, Tim Clark. J Biomed Inform. 2008 Oct;41(5):739-51. Epub 2008 May 4.
- 2006 ~ Models for guidelines representation.
Silvana Quaglini, Paolo Ciccarese. Neurological Sciences, Springer, vol. 27 pag. S240-S244
- 2005 ~ Architectures and Tools for innovative Health Information Systems: the Guide Projet.
Paolo Ciccarese, Ezio Caffi, Silvana Quaglini, Mario Stefanelli.
International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 74, pag. 553 - 562.
- 2003 ~ Modular representation of the guideline text: An approach for maintainAing and updating the content of medical education.
Anand Kumar, Silvana Quaglini, Mario Stefanelli, Paolo Ciccarese, EzioCaffi. Medical Informatics Internet Medicine, vol. 28, n. 2, pag. 99 - 115.
- 2003 ~ Comparing models of decision and action for guideline-based decision support: a case-study approach.
M. Peleg, S. Tu, Paolo Ciccarese, A. Kumar, S. Quaglini, M. Stefanelli et al. JAMIA ,ed American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 10, n. 1, pag.
52 - 68.
- PROCEEDINGS
- 2009 ~ SWAN/SIOC: Aligning Scientific Discourse Representation and Social Semantics.
Alexandre Passant, Paolo Ciccarese, John Breslin, Tim Clark.
Paper at ISWC 2009 SWASD (Workshop On Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse)
- 2009 ~ An agile model for semantic integration of biomedical web communities.
Clark Tim and Ciccarese Paolo. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics.
Conference Abstract: 2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.11.2009.08.139
- 2009 ~ Tinnitusbook: a proposal for an advanced scientific web community for tinnitus research.
Attanasio Giuseppe, Ciccarese Paolo, Wu Elizabeth, Clark Tim, Pecis Emiliano. Poster at 3rd Tinnitus Research Initiative Meeting
- 2007 ~ SWAN, a shared knowledge base for Alzheimer Disease research
June Kinoshita, Gwen Wong, Elizabeth Wu, Marco Ocana, Paolo Ciccarese, Tim Clark. Poster at Neuroscience 2007
- 2007 ~ E-learning for Occupational Medicine through an Interactive Guidelines Tool
Silvana Quaglini, Ezio Caffi, Paolo Ciccarese, Sergio Ghittori, Mazzoleni M.Cristina.
Poster at MEDINFO 2007
- 2007 ~ An Extensible Software Framework for Temporal Data Processing .
Cristiana Larizza, Paolo Ciccarese.
Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP) 2007 Proceedings
- 2007 ~ The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group work in progress: A large scale, OBO inspired, repository of biological knowledge based on Semantic Web technologies.
Matthias Samwald, William Bug, Jonathan Rees, Chris Mungall, John Barkley, Ray Hookway, Huajun Chen, Susie Stephens, Olivier Bodenreider, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Paolo Ciccarese, Tim Clark, Donald W Doherty, Kerstin Forsberg, Vipul Kashyap, June Kinoshita, Joanne Luciano, M Scott Marshall, Eric Neumann, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Daniel Rubin, Michael Travers, Gwen Wong, Elizabeth Wu, Alan Ruttenberg.
Poster at Bio-Ontologies SIG Workshop 2007
- 2007 ~ An Overview of the SWAN 1.0 Discourse Ontology
Paolo Ciccarese, Elizabeth Wu, Tim Clark.
WWW2007/HCLSDI Workshop
- 2006 ~ Developing SWAN, a shared knowledge base for Alzheimer's Disease research .
Gwen. T. Wong, Yong Gao, Elizabeth Wu, Paolo Ciccarese, Marco Ocana, June Kinoshita, Tim Clark.
Poster at Neuroscience 2006
- 2006 ~ A
Framework for Temporal Data Processing and Abstractions.
Paolo Ciccarese, Cristiana Larizza.
Proceedings AMIA 2006
- 2006 ~ Tempo: a Framework for temporal data processing and abstractions.
Paolo Ciccarese, Cristiana Larizza.
I Workshop on Technologies for Healthcare & Healthy Lifestyle
- 2004 ~ A
Guideline Management System.
Paolo Ciccarese, Ezio Caffi, Lorenzo Boiocchi, Silvana Quaglini, Mario
Stefanelli.
Medinfo 2004 ,ed Fieschi/Coiera e Yu-Chan Jack Li, IOS Press ,pag. 28 -
32.
- 2004 ~ Genius: a new tool for gene
networks visualization
Paolo Ciccarese, Stefano Mazzocchi, Fulvia Ferrazzi, Lucia Sacchi.
Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP)
Proceedings, ed Blaz Zupan, John H. Holmes , pag. 107 - 111.
- 2004 ~ Non-Compliance
with Guidelines: Motivations and Consequences in a case study
Silvana Quaglini, Paolo Ciccarese, Giuseppe Micieli, Anna Cavallini.
Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols,
Proceedings CPG 2004 ,ed IOS Press , pag. 75 - 87.
- 2003 ~ Context-Based
Task Ontologies for Clinical Guidelines
Kumar Anand, Ciccarese Paolo, Smith Barry, Piazza Matteo.
Pisanelli, Domenico M. (ed.): Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of
the Workshop on Medical Ontologies ,ed IOS Press.
- 2003 ~ The
NewGuide Project: guidelines, information sharing and Learning from
Exceptions
Paolo Ciccarese, Ezio Caffi, Lorenzo Boiocchi, Assaf Halevy, Silvana
Quaglini, Anand Kumar, Mario Stefanelli.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Proceedings AIME 2003 ,ed Springer
,pag. 163 - 167.
- 2003 ~ Relating
UMLS semantic types and task-based ontology to computer-interpretable
clinical practice guidelines
Anand Kumar, Paolo Ciccarese, Silvana Quaglini, Mario Stefanelli, Ezio
Caffi, Lorenzo Boiocchi.
Proceedings of Medical Informatics Europe, St. Malo, France ,ed IOS
Press ,pag. 469 - 474.
- 2002 ~ A
framework for representing and executing a clinical practice guideline
for the management of high blood pressure in pregnancy
Anand Kumar, Silvana Quaglini, Mario Stefanelli, Paolo Ciccarese, Ezio
Caffi, Lorenzo Boiocchi.
Technology and Health Care, vol. 10 ,pag. 517 - 519.
- 2002 ~ Modularized
service-oriented guidelines in a distributed web-based environment : A
data model and architecture for managing bioterrorism and its
continuous surveillance
Anand Kumar, Silvana Quaglini, Mario Stefanelli, Paolo Ciccarese.
International Conference on emerging infectious diseases 2002, Programs
and Abstracts Book.
- 2002 ~ New-Guide:
a new approach to representing clinical practice guidelines
Paolo Ciccarese, Silvana Quaglini, Anand Kumar.
Proceedings of Advances in Clinical Knowledge Management 5.
- 2001 ~ New-Guide:
Architecture
Paolo Ciccarese, Silvana Quaglini, Anand Kumar.
Proceedings of Open Clinical Workshop : Methods for the Representation of
Clinical Guidelines.
- TECHNICAL
- THESES
- The Guide Project: A Clinical Knowledge Management Framework. PhD Thesis,
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2006. In English.
- A tool for Clinical Practice Guidelines formalization. Master Thesis, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2001. In Italian
Organization of Scientific Events (Scientific Program Committee):
Scientific Revision Activities:
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine.
- Briefings in Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press.
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe.
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier
