MORGANTE MASSIMO

Name: MORGANTE, Massimo
Date and Place of birth: 19/07/1959, Avezzano, Italy.
Residential address: Via Seneca n° 10, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
Civil status: married with a child.
Languages: English (good, spoken and written).
Qualifications: 11 Nov. 1983, Degree with honors in Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Perugia, Italy (DVM).
Dipl. ECBHM (European College Bovine Health Management) November 2007.

Previous employments and positions:
1983 - 1985: General Practice in Large Animal Veterinary Surgery, and collaborator with the Italian National Veterinary Service in Livestock Control Program for Brucellosis, Tuberculosis and Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).
1985 – 1987: Livestock Vet Assistant, Regional Agricultural Organization, Abruzzo Region.
1987 – 1989: - Voluntary Residency for Laboratory Training, Institute of Medical Semeiology and Clinical Methodology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia.
1989 - 1999: Researcher, Institute of Medical Semeiology and Clinical Veterinary Methodology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy.
1994 - 1996: Lecturer, Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino.
1994 - 1999: Lecturer, Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia.
2000 -2007 Associate professor of Veterinary Internal Medicine Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Padua, Italy.

Present position:
2007 - Date, Full Professor, Veterinary Internal Medicine, Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, University of Padua, Italy.

Academic organizing activity:
2008-2011 Chairman of the PhD School in "Veterinary Science"
Present: component of teachers college of PhD course Veterinary Sciences

Non Academic position:
Scientific Editor of Large Animal Review ISSN: 1124-4593

Research area:
Laboratory diagnosis of mastitis in dairy ewes, goat, cow with particular interest in cellular composition of milk. Clinical laboratory control of physiology and nutritional and metabolic disorders of sheep, goat, cattle, and alpacas. Rumen acidosis and hypocalcaemia in dairy cows. Metabolic and nutritional disorders in farm animals. Preventive and environmental medicine in farm animals. Control and diagnosis of welfare disturbances in farm animals.

Publications:
More than 200 publications on national and international scientific journal and proceedings of national and international congress.

Books:
Chapter 10 “Digestive disturbances and metabolic-nutritional disorders” in Dairy sheep feeling and nutrition, Ed. G. Pulina, CABI International 2004.
Chapter 13 “Digestive disturbances and metabolic-nutritional disorders” in Dairy goat feeling and nutrition, Ed. A. Cannas and G. Pulina, CABI International 2007.
Chapter 24 “Esame dei piccolo ruminanti” Semeiologia Clinica Veterinaria (Edited by Paolo Ciaramella) Paoletto Editore, 2013.

Abroad experiences:
Study trip at the Oregon State University, Camelid medicine and surgery course, 1997.
Study trip at the Oregon State University, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, September October, 2000.
Teaching Exchange Program, Cillan Veterinary Medicine Faculty (University of Conception, Chile), October-November 2001, and November 2003.