This series on "Pediatric Medicine and Surgery at the beginning of Artificial Intelligence Era" is edited by Dr. Paolo Scanagatta from "Eugenio Morelli" Hospital, Italy. Recently, the ongoing development of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to profound changes in various aspects of medical research and clinical management.
In the pediatric field we wanted to analyze, both in clinical and surgical specialties, what the field of application of these new technologies is, and which aspects have already changed, are changing or will change in the near future.
It is above all for this reason that we have decided to promote this series of Pediatric Medicine: to try to predict what the further developments of these technologies will be both in the field of research and in that of future clinical practices.
Paolo Scanagatta, MD
Thoracic Surgery Department at "Eugenio Morelli" Hospital, ASST Valtellina Alto Lario, Sondalo, Italy
Dr. Scanagatta is the Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Department at "Eugenio Morelli" Hospital, ASST Valtellina Alto Lario, Sondalo, a National and International reference for respiratory diseases.
Dr. Scanagatta was born in Pavia (Italy) in 1974. He has been the Director of the Thoracic Surgery Department of the Morelli Hospital since September 2021, and a Lecturer at the Milan University School of Medicine since 2014. He previously served as a consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Italian National Cancer Institute (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori), Milan, Italy from 1/2010 to 9/2021.
He is particularly recognized as an expert in Pediatric Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Scanagatta earned his medical degree in 1999 from the University Medical School in Milan. He completed his training in General Thoracic Surgery at Verona University and City Hospital in 2004 and attended the European School of Thoracic Surgery in the same year. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Clinical Researcher and then a Staff Surgeon at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. In 2008 he joined the Thoracic Surgery Unit in Cuneo, Piedmont, as a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon. In 2010, Dr. Scanagatta joined the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Italian National Cancer Institute (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori), Milan.
In 2021 he was appointed director of the Thoracic Surgery Department of the “Eugenio Morelli” Hospital, Sondalo, Italy.
He believes in a multi-modal approach to lung cancer (including translational medicine and target therapies) and accurate preoperative study of surgical candidates; he also experts in managing complications to obtain the best postoperative outcomes.
Minimally invasive (VATS) Thoracic Surgery, pulmonary metastasectomy, surgical treatment of refractory tubercolosis and thoracectomy with rib-like reconstruction after chest-wall resection are other current fields of research.
He is Scientific Referent (Thoracic Surgery) for the First Italian Internet Site of Online Medicine www.medicitalia.it and editor of the Literature Section of the Official Internet Site of the Italian Multidisciplinary Workforce Against Lung Cancer (FONICAP) www.fonicap.it . He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Dr. Scanagatta is also an editorial member/reviewer of many international peer-reviewed journals and an Expert Referee for the Italian Ministry of University of Research (MIUR) for the Evaluation of Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN).
Series outline:
Editorial Commentary
- Pediatric Medicine: The Beginning of a New Era
- Artificial Intelligence and Psycho-pathology in children and adolescents. New burdens of ethics?
Review Articles
- Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: where we are and where we are going
- Artificial Intelligence and pediatric surgery. New opportunities
- Artificial Intelligence and pediatric anesthesia: The Times are Changing
- Driving the surgeon in the lung: Artificial Intelligence and the New Imaging Tools
- Diabetes management and AI in pediatric age
- Pediatric radiology and artificial intelligence
- Difficult clinical decision in pediatric patients: the role of artificial intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence and enhanced pediatric surgical outcomes
- Pediatry and AI: where are we going?
- Robot, AI and Children: past, present and future
- Infectious Disease in children and the use of ChatGPT
Disclosure:
The series "Pediatric Medicine and Surgery at the beginning of Artificial Intelligence Era" is commissioned by the editorial office, Pediatric Medicine without any sponsorship or funding. Dr. Paolo Scanagatta is serving as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.