Cristoforo Pomara, M. D., Ph D

 

 

Name: Cristoforo

Surname: Pomara

Place and date of birth: Palermo, October 27 1973.

Degree: Medical Doctor PhD.

 

 

OFFICE ADDRESS          

                                                Department of Anatomy,

                                                Faculty of Medicine & Surgery

                                                Biomedical Sciences Building

                                                University of Malta

                                                Phone #: (+39) 333 2466148

                                                Phone #: 356 21 319527

 

 

                                                Institute of Forensic Pathology

                                                Ospedale Colonnello D’Avanzo, Via degli Aviatori n.1

                                                Foggia, 71100

                                                Phone #:    (+39) 333 2466148

                                                Fax #:          (+39) 0881 736903

                                                E-mail:        cristoforopomara@hotmail.com

                                                                       cristoforo.pomara@um.edu.mt

 

                                                                                                                       

 

EDUCATION                     University of Palermo, Faculty of Medicine                                       1992-1998

                                                Palermo, Italy

 

                                               

                                                Doctor of Medicine                                                                                        1998

                                               

                                                Residency in forensic pathology

                                                University of Palermo, Faculty of Medicine                                       1998-2001

 

                                               

                                                Residency in forensic pathology

                                                University of Foggia, Faculty of Medicine                                           2001-2002

 

                                                Part time researcher in Forensic department,

                                                University of Foggia, Faculty of Medicine                                           2002-2004

                                               

                                               

                                                PhD in methodological approach to forensic                                    2004-2007

                                                 and surgeries sciences University of Foggia,

                                                Faculty of Medicine

 

 

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

 

                                                Assistant Professor of forensic Medicine,                           

                                                University of Foggia, Faculty of Medicine                                           2007-2012                                        

                                               

                                                Associate Professor of Anatomy,                                                                            department of anatomy,                                                                                                                                                                      University of Malta                                                                        2012- Present

 

                                               

 

HOSPITAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 

Director of division of  Toxicology and Histopathology                2008-Present

of Forensic department Ospedale “G. Tatarella”, Cerignola,

Foggia                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                 

 

Teaching position at the University of Bari-Foggia in                   2002-Present

the School of Specialization in Forensic Medicine                                                 

                                           

 

Coordinator of a research group on Risk Management                 2006-Present

in two Private Clinics: Nuova San Francesco and Villa

Serena di Foggia,  with primary responsibility for the

management of research funds in these facilities                                                      

 

Member of a committee, as per request of the Minister               2011-Present

of Education, to safeguard the scientific research in the

University                                                                                        

 

Visiting Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology                   7/ 1/ 2011-9/30/ 2011  

at Columbia University in New York City                                                        

 

 

Vice Team-Leader  as  Italian member of a  European                 2011-Present

Multicenter Project for the Technical Working

Group Post_Mortem Angiography Methods at the

University of Lausanne in Switzerland. 

 

Dean for Research at the University of Foggia                             2012-Present

 

President of the Patents commission                                             2012-Present

of the University of Foggia                   

 

Member of the Editorial Board for the “Dataset                           2012-Present

Papers on Medicine, Phatology, Hinddaway Publishing Corporation                                

 

 

 

 

Grants

 

Principal Investigator (PI)

Ongoing Study

“Anabolic steroid and new psychoactive compounds (Smart Drugs) abuse and dependence as a social evil that interests both the health care and legal systems. Organ damage in healthy young athletes: epidemiologic, biochemical, pathological, toxicological evidence and proposal of a new doping control model.”

Decreto n. 735  FIRB 2012/Horizon 2020 grant total budget of 864.000 euro.

In addition to the aforementioned accomplishments, I have also maintained a very high level of scientific productivity as demonstrated by more than 100 papers (57 of these are listed on PubMed and quoted by a I.F. of pus than 120, H index:9-10) and many chapters in international books. In am also the editor of "Forensic Autopsy: A Handbook and Atlas", a well-known textbook  used by students and residents all over the world.

 

Prof. Cristoforo Pomara, MD, PhD

Msida, 2013-06-08