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Contact data

Full Professor of Legal Medicine
Department of Medicine and Public Health
via Guicciardini n. 9/bis, 21100 Varese VA -I
Tel: +39.0332.217540
Fax: +39.0332.217549
E-mail: mario.tavani@uninsubria.it

 

Biography

Mario Tavani was born in Pisa (Italy) on February 18, 1946

He achieved his degree in Medicine and Surgery “cum laude” at Pavia University in July 1970

June 1973, he achieved the Specialist MD diploma “cum laude in Legal and Forensic Medicine at Pavia University.

November 1977 he achieved the Specialist diploma “cum laude in Clinical Criminology at Genova University.

November 1993 he became Full Professor of Legal Medicine at Pavia University and then at the University of Insubria (in Varese and Como).

November 1983 he became Director of Legal Medicine Services in Varese Hospital.

September 2005 he is responsible for the Forensic Medical activities for “Repubblica e Canton Ticino” (Italian Switzerland).
 

Qualifications and awards

Full Professor of Legal Medicine.

He is the President of Legal and Insurance Medicine Society in Lumbardy.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Carlo Erba Fundation in Milan.

He is a member of several Italian Scientific Societies.

He is the President of the Ethical Committee of the Varese local Health commission.

He is the President of the Medico-legal association of Insubria.
 

Research interests

Organ transplantation: Legal, juridical, practical, laboratorystic issues
Professional liability;
Ethical and deontological issues on consent to treatment, living will etc.
Cloning: Legal, juridical, practical, laboratorystic, perital issues;
Liability of the Research Laboratory and Public Organizations.
Bioengineering: treatment and legality issues, issues on use of human organs, import, usage and commerce of bio-engineered biological products.
Professional liability of physicians under the provisions of Penal, Civil and Deontological Codes:
Criteria for a correct evaluation of the liability within an laboratory
In particular:
Liability of the technician in a Laboratori, boundaries of his sphere of intervention, liability on products and gis subordinates, certifications and false issues on certifications,
Issues related to the right to Privacy.
Crime and Health Care: every criminal event related to the exercise of a job and in defense of Public Health
Medical Humanities: current philosophical issues related to Medicine
Transcultural Medicine: ethical and juridical issues related to the assistance to immigrants.
Medicine of the Insurances: Evaluation and estimation of damage to the body in general.
 

Teaching experience and appointments

Director of the School of Specialization in Legal Medicine at the University of Insubria (Varese).
Director of the School of Specialization in Work Medicine at the University of Insubria (Varese).
Co-ordinator of Bi-annual International Master in Medical Humanities (University of Insubria, in partnership with Fondazione Sasso Corbaro if Bellinzona – CH – and Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva).
Coordinator of Bi-annual Master in Forensic Criminology (University of Insubria and University Carlo Cattaneo of Castellanza, in partnership with Italian State Police and with contribution of Italian Switzerland Catonal Police)
Director of the teaching of Legal Medicine at the School of Medicine and Surgery
Director of the teaching of Legal Medicine at the School of Odonthiatry
Director of several teachings in Schools of Specialization and tri-annual courses degrees.
 

Representative  publications

Le applicazioni medico-legali della citofluorimetria a flusso. Ricerca sul comportamento di alcune sottopopolazioni linfocitarie nel sangue cadaverico (in Coll. con Lunetta Ph.) - Arch.Med.Leg.Ass., 15, 227, 1993

-Diffusione delle malattie virali in chirurgia: prevenzione e responsabilità (in coll. con R.Dionigi, G.Carcano, C.Garberi e A. Ochetti). Atti del 98° Congr. Soc. It. Chirurgia, Luigi Pozzi Ed., 1996, Vol. 2°

-La valutazione medico-legale del danno: dottrina e pratica oggi .
Atti del Congr. su “Il Danno Biologico: le c.d. micro-invalidità”,
Moroni Ed., Varese, 1996

-La consulenza etica nelle strutture sanitarie: esperienze e modelli a confronto (in coll. con L.Galvagni e P.Cattorini)
Med.Leg.Quad.Cam., XIX, 3, 1997

-La cute umana coltivata (E.C.) per allotrapianto nella prospettiva medico-legale italiana (in coll. con A. Farneti). In: Aspetti medico-legali e normativi dei prodotti dell’ ingegneria tessutale, Giuffré, Milano, 1998

-Traumi e tumori. In: Trattato di Medicina Legale e Scienze affini, CEDAM, Padova, 1998

-Direttive anticipate: aspetti etici (in coll. con M. Picozzi). In: Le direttive anticipate del malato. Masson, Milano, 1999

-La formazione in bioetica: una proposta per studenti e laureati (in coll. con M. Picozzi). Franco Angeli Ed., Milano, 1999

-Gli interventi chirurgici in un’ ottica medico-legale (in coll. con M. Picozzi). chirurgica, Masson, Milano, 1999

-Le droghe del sabato sera. Inquadramento socio-antropo-criminologico del fenomeno (in coll. con J. Birkhoff e A. Francia). Rass. It. Criminol., Giuffré, 10/2, 257, 1999

-La valutazione del danno a persona quale conseguenza di lesioni traumatiche (in coll. con F. De Ferrari e G.A. Norelli).
Masson Ed., Milano 2000

-La responsabilità del medico nella diagnostica ecografica (in coll. con A. Goddi, R.Campani, Argalia G., Giuseppetti G.M. e Candiani F.). In: Radiologia Forense, Mediserve, Milano, 2000

-Criteri di valutazione dell’ invalidità permanente da malattia. Atti Congr. Naz. su “La malattia, problema clinico, sociale e medicolegale”, Visual Art, Riccione, 2000

-Risarcimento da macro-danno da trauma cranio-encefalico (A.B.I. – T.B.I.) .
Collana Medico-Giuridica (Atti IX Congr. Medico-Giuridico Internazionale CSGG su “Vulnera Mentis”), 10, 2000 (pag. 2 C.D.)

-Persone sieropositive e trapianto: verso nuovi criteri di formazione delle liste (in coll. con M. Picozzi e P. Grossi), Abstract Book Conv. Naz. NITp, 5-6 novembre 2001 (pag.24)

-Compatibilità carceraria, HIV/AIDS e “Malattia particolarmente grave” (in coll. con A. Demori e D. Roncali).
Giuffrè, Milano, 2001Principi di Medicina Legale per il chirurgo (in coll. con M. Picozzi), in R. Dionigi , Chirurgia (3° Ed.), Masson, Milano,2002

-Interventi sanitari terapeutici e rituali nell’ottica di una medicina transculturale (in coll. con M. Picozzi e R. Sala), in La Metodologia Medico-Legale nella prassi forense, Atti del XXXIII Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Medicina Legale, Milano: Giuffré, 2002, 982-995;

-Clonazione e utilizzo delle cellule staminali: questioni etico-giuridiche, (in coll. Con M. Picozzi) Jura Medica, 15/2, 2002, 37-54;
 

Clinical interests

  • Ethical Committees
  • Ethical Consultations for hospitals
  • Risk Management
  • Sudden Death
  • Organ Transplantation 

 

 
   
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