Giuseppe Citerio

Giuseppe Citerio, MD, is an Anesthesia and Intensive Care professor at the Milano Bicocca University (link), School of Medicine and Surgery (link).

Dr Citerio is  the Editor-in-Chief of INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE since 2019 (IF 41,7) https://www.springer.com/journal/134

Clinical commitments

He is the Director of the Neuroscience Department (link) and Director of Anesthesia and Neurosurgical Intensive Care (link) at San Gerardo Hospital, ASST-Monza.

He started the Neurointensive and Neuroanesthesia service in the early 1990s at San Gerardo Hospital in Monza after a previous experience at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

Research activities – Publications

While at the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, he has actively participated in national and international research networks, such as BrainIT and CenterTBI.

Dr Citerio has also been involved in numerous research protocols and drug trials, often acting as the principal investigator. His research activities are focused on TBI, subarachnoid hemorrhage, neuroanesthesia, neurointensive care, and brain death/organ donation.

Giuseppe Citerio has published over 500 indexed articles (H index of 61, link).

He has participated in developing international guidelines on treating patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain death and neuromonitoring.

In addition, he edited the book “Oxford Textbook of Neurocritical Care” (Oxford University Publisher, 2016) with other international colleagues. 

Educational activities

He has invited as speaker to hundreds of medical congresses and he developed more than 50 courses in Italy and Europe on Neurointensive Care topics, and last but not least, he created a NeuroICU Summer School program at UNIMIB on NeuroIntensive Care that took place for the first time in 2017.

He is the past Chair of the Division of Scientific Affairs of the European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM), an Executive Committee member of ESICM and, for three years, was the Chair of the Annual Meeting ESICM and regional congresses.

CV available at: https://www.unimib.it/giuseppe-citerio