Dott. Massimo Allegri

EDUCATION, TRAINING

2015: Fellowship in Interventional Pain Practice – FIPP
2003: Postgraduate Degree in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, University of Pavia (Italy) (50/50 cum laude)
1999-2003: Postgraduate School in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy,University of Pavia (Italy)
1999: Degree in Medicine, University of Pavia (110/110 cum laude) with the work “Efficacia della neurostimolazione spinale in pazienti affetti da dolore cronico intrattabile” presented and published at the 9th World Congress on Pain. Progress in Pain Research and Management. I.A.S.P. 1999. Vol.16.pp.993-998.

MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Faculty member of International Group F1000 (Section Pain Management: Chronic Clinical Section in the Anesthesiology & Pain Management Faculty).
Responsible for Research of Federdolore – SICD (Italian Society for Acute and Chronic Pain).
Member of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).
Member of the Scientific Board of BEACON Project of Federal Drug Administration (FDA) regarding non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and pain.
Member of Scientific Board of Fondazione ISAL.
President of SIMPAR (Study In Multidisciplinary Pain Research) research group (including responsibility for scientific direction).
Responsible for Research in Acute and Chronic Pain Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia.
2007-2010: Scientific Member of Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo in the “Development of Pavese Area in Biomedical Research” Project.
2006-2015: Member of European Society of Regional Anesthesia.
2006-2012: Secretary of European Society of Regional Anesthesia – Italian Chapter.
2006-2014: Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy in Orthopedic Postgraduate.

CLINICAL AND RESEARCH WORKING

2018 – now: Pain Therapist in the first Pain Regenerative Clinic, “Image Institute” – Milan (Italy).
2018 – now: Head Pain Therapy Service, “Policlinico Monza” – Monza (Italy).
2018 – now: Scientific Head, “M3 Salus Society” (Society that provides multidisciplinary pain therapy services to private Hospitals).
2018 – now: Founder of “Italian Pain Group”.
2014 – 2017: Responsible for Clinical Activity of Pain Therapy at “University of Parma Hospital” (8,500 visits/year, more than 4,000 procedures/year) on behalf of the Director of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy Service – Parma (Italy).
2014 – 2017: Responsible for Unit of Research in Chronic Pain at “University of Parma” including management and oversight of a laboratory dedicated to research in genomics and pain – Parma (Italy).
2003-2014: Responsible for the Acute Pain Service for Urology and General Surgery IRCCS (National Research Hospital), “University of Pavia Hospital” – Pavia (Italy).
2010 – 2014: Responsible for Research in Acute and Chronic Pain, “University of Pavia Hospital” – Pavia (Italy).
2003 – 2014: Responsible for Acute and Chronic Pain for IRCCS, “University of Pavia Hospital” – Pavia (Italy).

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2017: Passed national exam, approved as Full Professor in Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy)
2015: Member of the Research Institute Center BioGeNap, research institute in collaboration with “University of Parma” and “Italian Center of National Research (CNR)” – Parma (Italy)
2015: Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).
2013: Passed national exam, approved as Associate Professor, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).
2010-2015 – Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).

ACADEMIC TEACHING

2015 – 2016: Responsible for Internship in Anesthesia and Emergency Care in Dental University, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).
2013 – 2017: Teacher and Responsible for 2nd Level Master Degree in Pain Therapy, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).
2013 – 2017: Teacher and Responsible for 2nd Level Master Degree in Palliative Care, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).
2013 – 2014: Teacher of Nursing in Critical Care, Nursing University, “University of Parma” – Parma (Italy).
2012 – 2014: Teacher of Emergency and Critical Care in the following courses: Dental Care; Biomedical Technician; Technician in Radiology; Dietology; Techinician in Orthopedics; Technician in Neurophysiopathology; Technician in Cardiovascular Surgery.

OTHER WORKING EXPERIENCES

2015: Referee of Medical Research Council (Regno Unito) del MRC Research Grants Board per valutazione di progetti di ricerca.
2014 – 2018: Assistant Professor, Department Surgical Sciences, Section of Anesthesiology Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, University of Parma (Italy).
2014 – 2018: Anesthesia Intensive Care and Pain Therapy Department, “University of Parma Hospital”, Parma (Italy).
2010 – 2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Resuscitation and Organ Transplantation Surgery Sciences, Section of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Medicine University, “University of Pavia” – Pavia (Italy).
2008: Research conducted at “Pain Clinic Inselspital” Bern (Switzerland) and at “Pain Clinic Massachussets General Hospital – Harvard Medical School” Boston (USA).
2003-2014: Worked in the Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Unit, “Policlinico S. Matteo I.R.C.C.S. Foundation of Pavia”, Pavia (Italy).
2003: Research conducted at “Pain Clinic Hospital del Mar” Barcelona (Spain) and at “Pain Clinic Hospital Maria Midddalares” Sint Niklaas (Belgium).
2003: Participation in “Teorical- Practice Master in diagnosis and therapy of pain” Centro Studi Fondazione Maugeri, Pavia (Italy).
1999-2003: Clinical research in “Pain Therapy Unit” Fondazione IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia (Italy).

Research interests

All research activities have been conducted utilizing a translational approach to discover new personalized medicine approaches in the following areas:
– Low back pain
– Neuropathic pain
– Spinal cord stimulation and pain
– Chronic postoperative pain
– Genomics and pharmacogenetics in acute/chronic pain: I have enrolled more than 2,000 patients in genomics clinical trials
– New clinical and laboratory biomarkers of pain and for pain diagnosis”

Author of 105 full lenght papers in peer review journals.

H index 20 (web of science/Scopus), Impact factor 260.