Biography

Currently Antonio Ragusa is Director/Head of obstetric pathologyat the Fatebene Fratelli Gemelli Hospital, Isola Tiberina in Rome, and full-time researcher at the Campus Bio medico University of Rome. Prof Ragusa is associated with the Institute on Atmospheric Pollution (CNR) with a collaboration assignment as a Senior Researcher to carry out collaborative activities to study the impact of environmental pollution in the prenatal and perinatal age. In 2010, Dr. Ragusa went to Haiti after the earthquake, on behalf of the “Marina Rava” ONG, where opened the delivery room and the department of obstetrics of the Saint Damien Hospital at Port Au Prince. Dr. Ragusa was also in service on board the San Marco hospital ship in 2013, on behalf of the NPH Italia, Fondazione Rava, during the "Mare Nostrum" operations, providing initial medical treatment to those stranded in the Mediterranean Sea, saved by the Italian Navy. Dr. Ragusa is President of the Confalonieri Ragonese Foundation, as president he has coordinated numerous national recommendations promulgated by the three main Italian scientific societies in the gynecological sector (SIGO, AOGOI, AUGUI) in the last years, these recommendations are visible to everyone on the official SIGO, AOGOI, AOGUI sites (https://www.aogoi.it/fondazione-confalonieri-ragonese/). He was scientific consultant for the Italian Ministry of Health and has published more than one hundred scientific papers and 20 books and / or book chapters on a national and international level. In this period, he mainly deals with perinatal medicine, evaluating new techniques for reducing unnecessary caesarean sections and the consequences of plastic pollution on fetal / neonatal health.