Francesco Rotchella
Department of Internal Medicine
Reactor Monitoring and Simulation Laboratory
Greece
Biography
Francesco Rotella, MD, was born in Florence, 1979. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Florence in 2004 (top grade), and was subsequently certified in Psychiatry in 2008 (top grade). In 2008 he obtained the European Master in "Affective Neuroscience" from the University of Florence (Italy) and from the University of Maastrict (Holland). In 2013 he completed his Ph.D. in: "Translational Medicine: Molecular methodologies for Diagnosis and Therapy applied to Psycocomportamental Medical Sciences" at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. Since 2003 he works for the Department of Pathophysiology, Unit of Endocrinology, Metabolic Disease Clinic, University of Florence with research functions. Since 2004 he works for the Psychiatric Unit, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, University of Florence with both clinical and research functions. Since 2012, he works for the Careggi Teaching Hospital, Diabetes Agency with research functions. In 2014 he won the research grant "Post-Doctoral Fellowship 12 mesi" at the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, Milan, Italy.
Research Interest
Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Psychopharmacology, Affective Disorders, Eating Disorders, Diabetes, Obesity.