Pavia, June 21 2006

OTTORINO ROSSI AWARD

XVII Edition

Collegio Cairoli - Pavia

The Awarding Committee

Luciana R. Angeletti

Professor of History of Medicine, University “La Sapienza”, Rome

Vincenzo Bonavita

President of the Board of Italian Professors of Neurology

Giorgio Bono

Professor of Neurology, University of Insubria, Varese

Alberto Calligaro

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Pavia

Mauro Ceroni

Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pavia (secretary of the award)

Vittorio Cosi

Director of the School of Specialization in Neurology, University of Pavia

Moshe Feinsod

President of the International Society of the Hystory of the Neurosciences (ISHN)

Giovanni Lanzi

Director of the School of Specialization in Child Neuropsychiatry, University of Pavia

Paolo Mazzarello

Associate Professor of History of Medicine University of Pavia

Arrigo Moglia

Director of the Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Pavia

Giuseppe Nappi

Scientific Director of the IRCCS “C. Mondino Neurological Institute” Foundation, Pavia

Angiolino Stella

President of the IRCCS “C. Mondino Neurological Institute” Foundation, Pavia and Rector of the University of Pavia

Giorgio Zanchin

Professor of History of Medicine, University of Padua

Program

 

5.30 pm Opening Ceremony and Welcome

Local Authorities

6.00 pm Presentation of the Winner

Paolo Mazzarello, Pavia

6.10 pm Lecture by the Winner

Stanley Finger, Washington University, S. Louis, Missouri, USA

Benjamin Franklin and the Neurosciences

 

Previous Winners

Vittorio Erspamer, Rome - Italy (1990)

Paolo Pinelli, Milan – Italy (1991)

Giovanni Di Chiro, Bethesda – USA (1992)

Clarence Joseph Gibbs Jr, Bethesda – USA(1993)

David Zee, Baltimore – USA (1994)

Elio Lugaresi, Bologna – Italy (1995)

Michel Fardeau, Paris – France(1996)

Salvador Moncada, London – UK (1997)

Alain Berthoz, Paris – France (1998)

Ottar Sjaastad, Trondheim – Norway (1999)

John Timothy Greenamyre, Atlanta – USA (2000)

Salvatore DiMauro, New York – USA (2001)

Elio Raviola, Boston – USA (2002)

Michel Welch, Chicago – USA (2003)

Francois Boller, Paris – France (2004)

Jes Olesen, Copenhagen – Oland (2005)