Mourning in the world of medicine: Giuseppe Malizia, 68 years old, head of the complex gastroenterology operational unit of the Cervello hospital, of the Villa Sofia – Cervello hospital in Palermo, has died. The company itself announced the death.
Malizia was responsible for the hub center of the Cervello hospital of the regional network for hepatitis C, and a point of reference for primary biliary cholangitis and for Nafld-Nash metabolic liver diseases.
«On behalf of all the employees – states the extraordinary commissioner of the Palermo hospital company Roberto Colletti, together with the entire strategic management – we express our sincere closeness to the family of Doctor Giuseppe Malizia and express our deepest condolences for his passing. Malizia has historically represented a valuable and highly qualified point of reference for our company. He leaves a great void in all of us due to his great human and professional caliber.”
Giuseppe Malizia had obtained a degree in medicine and surgery and subsequently specialized in diseases of the management system at the University of Palermo. Many experiences abroad including that of researcher at the Respiratory & Critical Care Division of Washington University in St. Louis, in the USA, where he worked on the role of growth factors in the fibrogenetic mechanisms of liver cirrhosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis .
malizia had also been a researcher at the Medicine department of the ST. James’s University Hospital in Leeds (Great Britain) in the field of immunological mechanisms in celiac disease and in inflammatory intestinal diseases, as well as in that of computerized prediction systems in upper digestive bleeding, had also been responsible for Italy and member of the project management group of the Comac-Bme Project on Objective Medical Decision Making in Acute Abdominal Pain (AAP1).
