I was born in 1955 and have been married since 1993 to Michela Melchiorri.
I have two children, Emanuele and Chiara, Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Clinical Psychology, respectively.
My medical education was born within the family, in the footsteps of my father Michele, a hospital internist clinician, who initiated me into the knowledge of the clinical method.
I pursued classical studies in the Villa Flaminia High School in Rome.
My human and social formation began at age 14 with volunteer experiences in youth associations dedicated to the social inclusion of the handicapped, an emerging social problem in the early 1970s.
I participate in an integration experience with boys from the Casal del Marmo Juvenile Prison, playing prison soccer.
I later devoted myself to numerous initiatives toward poor people in the dormitory neighborhoods of Rome.
In the late 1980s, in connection with the emerging problem of immigration, I took part in the management of a number of reception and cultural training houses for foreigners in Rome, Abruzzo and Calabria.
I live an experience of youth political life at the time and with young Europeanist associations.
I graduated with honors from La Sapienza University in Rome in 1980.
I perform military service as a medical second lieutenant at VIII O.R.E. in Rome.
I began working in July 1981 at the Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment Service of the San Camillo Hospital in Rome, where I still practice.
In 1988 I curate the organization of a major international congress on psychiatry in Taormina: “Chronics ten years later” with Prof. Vincenzo Rapisarda and Prof. Antonio Virzì.
I specialize in psychiatry at the University of Catania, with Prof. Vincenzo Rapisarda, in 1990.
At the same time, I follow a training course in Systemic Relational Psychotherapy with Prof. Gaspare Vella.
At the same time, I devote myself to freelancing, which I have been doing all my life.
In the late 1980s, I begin to develop my expertise in computer applications of psychiatry.
In the years 1990 – 1993 I serve as a team leader in the Monteverde area of CSM RM D.
In 1991, he was the first in Rome to adopt a computer management system for all CSM activities, with remarkable improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of the system.
In 1993 I publish with Masson Publisher PSIDIAG, the first software to support the coding of psychiatric diagnosis.
In 1994, I opened an outpatient clinic for Depression within St. Camillus Hospital, which was active until 2006.
I use the computerized management, designed and implemented by myself, of every outpatient and counseling activity, reaching the number of about 4,000 records registered in those years.
I get a lot of response from the print and news media, with countless articles and television programs.
In 1994 he founded with Prof. Antonio Virzi the non-profit organization Strade, an acronym for Study and Treatment of Depression.
I will conduct outreach and information on Depression, carrying out numerous public events and free initiatives to support citizens at pharmacies and family physicians’ offices.
Deserving special mention is a Bill presented in 2006 by Hon. Giuseppe Naro, for the allocation of a minimum percentage of 15 percent of public psychiatry funds to the treatment of depression, later passed by the amendment of Title V of the Italian Constitution.
The project was launched at the Marini Palace, with a public campaign entitled “Depression is Not a Fault,” gaining significant traction in the health care world.
Strade Onlus has been strongly supported by President Giuseppe Cossiga, who has participated in many public events organized over the years.
In 2012 I set up a foundation dedicated to Postpartum Depression, which is called Rebecca.
As president, I organized a major international congress on Perinatal Depression on Capitol Hill in 2014, with guests from all over the world.
In 2014, I opened the first initiative dedicated to informing people about Postpartum Depression outside of healthcare facilities, inside Eataly, where I organized educational and scientific outreach meetings.
I then turned to new frontiers of information technology applied to psychiatry with the Lucy project, to develop a smartphone application for remote care of chronic diseases.
I have recently developed a project for video counseling and televising for psychiatric patients with Covid.