Carlo Romano, MD
Urology Unit
Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini Seriate
via Marconi, 9 - Bergamo - Italy
Tel. +39 035984274 
e-mail: romanocarlo@inwind.it

Education and Training:
Dott. Romano is an active urologist, and since 1976 he is very active with medical information technology applications. Besides his teaching work at the School of Urology in Brescia, his main interests are related to Computer Aided Learning techniques (CAL), and Application Engeneering to develop clinico-gestional systems for hospital departments.

November 1972	Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Padua
								Verona, Italy

July 1978				Specialist in Urology cum laude, University of Genoa 
								Genoa, Italy

June 1981				Specialist in Oncology, University of Genoa
								Genoa, Italy

June 1988				Specialist in Pediatric Surgery, University of Verona
								Verona, Italy

Present position:
-	Chief of the Urological Unit, A.O. Bolognini – Seriate, Bergamo, Italy

-	Professor of Medical Information Technology, School of Urology, University of Brescia, Italy

-	Chief information officer, Continuing Medical Education Committee (CME) of the European Board of Urology (EBU), for the development of “Credit System” program on the Internet

-	Consultant for clinical applications, Bayer Information Technology group (BIT), Bayer Italia
Milano

Bibliography:
-	G. Romagnoli, G. Scielzo, V. Barbieri, F. Faranda, G. Gemma, C. Romano, M. Spina, B. Possenti
	L'IMPIEGO DELL'ELABORATORE ELETTRONICO IN CHIRURGIA PEDIATRICA
	Minerva Pediatrica 1978 vol. 30 n°4: 353-357

-	C. Romano, C. Guizzetti, P. Graziotti, A. Ranieri, A.Losa, C. Sacchi, M. Rizzi, A. Lembo
	UROLOGIST: SVILUPPO DI UNA RETE LOCALE PER LA GESTIONE DI UNA DIVISIONE UROLOGICA.
	Urologia 1994, Vol. 61 n°1: 72-74

-	C. Romano, A. Lembo
	UROLOGIST: A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR A UROLOGY DEPARTMENT.
	Minimally Invasive Therapy and allied technologies. Eight International Meeting
	1996 - Vol. 5; Supplement 1:107

-	C. Romano, A. Lembo
	CARTELLA CLINICA COMPUTERIZZATA ED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
	Acta Urologica Italica 1997, Suppl. Volume XII - 1: 213:214

-	C. Romano, A. Lembo
	CLINICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A NEW MEDICAL FIELD?
	Archivio Italiano di Urologia-Andrologia 1998, Vol. LXX n°4: 183:186

Recent Projects:
-	“Urologist” $ an informatic system for clinical and adminisrative management of a department of urology (1997)

-	“Shuttle” $ an informatic system for clinical and administrative management of an hospital department (1998)

-	“VIP, Paduan Ileal Bladder” $ (W.Artibani, F.Pagano, C.Romano), a multimedia system for teaching the “Ortotopic ileal Bladder” surgical procedure (2000)

-	“CME-CPD Credit System” $ (European Board of Urology), an informatic system for Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development (2001)