Accademia Nazionale di Medicina (AccMed) is a non-profit scientific association that has been involved in the training and updating of healthcare professionals since 1991. In 1994 it was recognized by the Ministry of Health as an 'institution suitable for providing technical-scientific consultancy regarding the updating and information of doctors on drugs', while in 1995 the Ministry of Education, University and Research recognized AccMed’s legal personality. AccMed is National CME Provider No. 31, founding member of the European Federation of Medical Academies (FEAM), represents Italy in the health and medicine section of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP ), which brings together 149 academies from all over the world, and is a partner of the Unitelma Sapienza online university.

 

 

To celebrate the continuous commitment to training and updating in the medical-scientific field of the National Academy of Medicine and all the healthcare professionals who collaborate with it, the AccMed Awards were established in 2001.

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The history of AccMed

In June 1981, prof. Leonardo Santi promotes the Higher School of Oncology and Biomedical Sciences (SSOSB) based in Santa Margherita Ligure, the first example in Italy of a structure with the sole objective of making a global ongoing training service available to doctors. In just a few years, the School became a cultural point of reference recognized by the Italian medical profession, which participated in large numbers in the activities promoted, especially in the oncology field.

In 1991 the National Academy of Medicine (AccMed) was established with Luigi Frati as president. AccMed is organized into Specialist Sections belonging to medical specialization schools recognized by the European Union. This produces an increase in activities in many disciplines.

AccMed opens up to important collaborations with scientific societies, research institutes, universities, hospitals, both secular and sector newspapers. It was called to join the European Federation of Medical Academies and was subsequently recognized by the MURST (now MIUR) and the Ministry of Health (now Salute).

The activities, which are increasingly numerous and qualified from year to year, find financial support in the participation fees paid by individual learners, in the funds made available by the European Union in the context of tenders launched to encourage innovative training projects, in sponsorships of those pharmaceutical industries that believe they can improve their image by financially supporting independent institutions whose institutional mandate is to provide doctors with training and cultural promotion services not conditioned by conflicts of interest.

Cronistoria dei premiati

2001

Horst Klinkmann

Professor of Internal Medicine and President of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Rostock where, around 1970, he founded one of the first centers in the world for research on artificial organs (kidney, heart, liver and pancreas). The center was and is also a point of reference for the training of specialists from all over the world. Founding member and honorary life president of the International Society of Artificial Organs (ISAO) and the European Society of Artificial Organs (ESAO).

2018

Leonardo Santi

Full Professor of Oncology at the University of Genoa. Founder of the National Institute for Cancer Research of Genoa (IST), of the Center for Advanced Biotechnologies of Genoa (CBA), of the Higher School of Oncology and Biomedical Sciences (SSOSB) of S. Margherita Ligure. He was President of the National Committee for Biosafety and Biotechnology of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for 20 years and held numerous institutional positions. He is President of the Scientific Committee of the Mediterranean Oncological Institute Foundation of Catania.

2018

Alberto Sobrero

Director of Medical Oncology, IRCCS A.O.U. San Martino IST
Genoa

Roberto Labianca

Director of Cancer Center ASST Pope John XXIII
Bergamo

Andrea Ardizzoni

Full Professor of Medical Oncology and Director of Medical Oncology, A.O.U. Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic
Bologna

Paolo Casali

Associate Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Milan and Director of SC Medical Oncology 2, IRCCS Institute Foundation, National Cancer Institute
Milan

Alberto Sobrero and Roberto Labianca have been involved for over 20 years, with the Grandangolo Conference in Oncology, in the transfer of the most current acquisitions to the clinical practice of Italian clinicians. They were joined over time by Andrea Ardizzoni and Paolo Casali.

2019

Franco Henriquet

He has carried out his professional activity at the San Martino Hospital since 1965 as Head of the Cardiac Surgery Anesthesia and Resuscitation Service. In 1983 he started an Oncological Pain Therapy Service, of which he was responsible until 1997. In 1984, reading "Long journey through the tunnel of illness" by Gigi Ghirotti, Franco Henriquet developed a splendid idea. The same idea that 30 years later pushes the Genoese to want "Henriquet's path": he founded a voluntary association, which will be called "Gigi Ghirotti", to guarantee home assistance to cancer patients, allowing them to be treated without leaving home. Over the years, the Association has extended assistance to those suffering from AIDS and ALS, with the help of two hospices. Today, Gigi Ghirotti is a point of reference, one of the strongest reasons for pride for the citizens of the Ligurian capital, a miraculous remedy for a gigantic flaw in the national health system. All thanks to Franco Henriquet and his tireless passion for altruism and solidarity.

2021

Umberto Bianchi

Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of the University of Brescia and Director of the Specialty School of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University of Brescia. Founder, together with Prof. Costantino Mangioni, of the conference "Highlights in gynecological oncology" which, for 40 years, has been organized every two years by this Academy.

2021

Costantino Mangioni

After managing the gynecological oncology of the Mangiagalli Clinic, he became Director of the University Clinic just established in Monza. In a hospital building made up of a collection of vintage prefabricated buildings he created a medical treatment and training center which attracted patients and doctors in training from all over Italy. He was the first in Italy to support the possibility of less invasive and mutilating gynecological oncological treatments but with unchanged effectiveness and in some cases maintaining reproductive potential.

2021

Maria Emilia Bonaccorso

Adjunct editor-in-chief of the Specialized Editorial Team where he follows the topics of Health, Science, Technology and Agriculture in Rome, at the ANSA headquarters. She maintains the Ansa-Salute website.