PROFESSOR MIRELLA RUGGERI - psychiatry.univr.it - Section of ...

July 2009
Summary of Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSOR MIRELLA RUGGERI
Address: Dipartimento di Medicina e Sanità Pubblica,
Sezione di Psichiatria e di Psicologia Clinica, Università di
Verona, Policlinico G.B. Rossi,
Piazzale L.A. Scuro 10,
37134 Verona, Italia
Telephone: +39-045-8124441
Fax: +39-045-8027480
E-mail: mirella.ruggeri@univr.it
Position: Professor of Psychiatry, University of Verona,
Department of Medicine and Public Health,
Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
and WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in
Mental Health and Service Evaluation.
Director, Service of Psychosomatic and Clinical Psychology,
NHS and University of Verona, Verona
Head of the Research Team for Outcome Evaluation in Mental
Health at the Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology,
University of Verona.
Chairperson of the ENMESH (European Network for Mental
Health Services Evaluation)
Past- President of the Italian Society of Psychiatric
Epidemiology.
National Coordinator of the Strategic Program Genetics
Endophenotypes and Treatment: Understanding early Psychosis
(GET-UP), funded in 2007 by the Ministry of Health
Titles: Doctor in Medicine, graduated with full marks and honors in
1984 at the University of Bologna
Specialist in Psychiatry: specialized with full marks and honors in
1988 at the University of Bologna
Ph.D. in Psychiatry: Course completed at the University of Verona
in 1994

Teaching
- Professor Ruggeri has conducted regular teaching activities since 1984, including Courses
for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and masters degree. She has held Seminars and
Courses in many different Institutions in Italy and abroad.
Stages
- From April 1985 till March 1986 she has been visiting scientist at the Department of
Pharmacology and at the Department of Histology and Neurobiology at Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden.
- She has done several stages at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of San Francisco, at the
Institute for Epidemiology and Behavioural Medicine, Berkley, California and at the Institute of
Psychiatry, King’s College.
- Appointed as “Honorary Academic Visitor” at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings’ College,
University of London, from April 2004 to March 2007.
- She is currently collaborating with various research groups around the world.
Main Research Interests
- Neurobiology (1984-1988)
- Epidemiological and social psychiatry (1988-present):
- mental health service evaluation,
- assessment of outcome for psychiatric disorders with particular reference to
disability, needs for care, quality of life, service satisfaction, family burden
- assessment of effectiveness of psychosocial interventions
- identification of the role of biological factors in determining the clinical presentation
and the outcome of psychosis, with particular reference to genetics
Clinical Activities
- Professor Ruggeri participates in the clinical activities which take place at the Section of
Psychiatry of the University of Verona and at the South-Verona Community-based Mental
Health Service. In particular, she is responsible of the Liaison Psychiatry Team and collaborates
in the Outpatient Department which provides care to patients with anxiety and depressive
disorders
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Past-President of the Italian Society of Psychiatric Epidemiology (SIEP; 1995-1999 as
Treasurer; 1999-2003 as Vice-President; 2003- as President)
- Chairperson of the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation ( ENMESH).

Member of the Scientific Committee since 2002)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Federation of Psychiatric
Epidemiology (IFPE) since June 2009
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP)
Scientific Journals
- Associated Editor of Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale
- Member of the Editorial Board of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Member of the Editorial Board of Psichiatria di Comunità
Awards and Publications
Her studies have received several Awards by Scientific Societies (AEP Section of Epidemiology
and Social Psychiatry and Italian Society of Neuroscience) and private Foundations.
She has published 185 papers, of these 101 have been published in international journals or
books. She his the author of four books in Italian respectively concerning psychiatric disorders
in general practice, quality of life, assessment of outcome in routine clinical practice, and the
outcome of schizophrenia.