Dr. Cascone Piero

Piero Cascone received his undergraduate degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1977 at the Sapienza Università di Roma. He got his specialty in ENT and Odontostomatology. He has 30 years of full-time experience in clinical care, research, and teaching in Dental and Medical Schools with a focus on the field of Temporomandibular disorders (TMD), cranio-maxillo-facial traumatology and malformations. In this area, he also researched and lectured at the Medical School of the University of Siena from 1986 to 1998. In 1989 he received a clinical appointment at the Department of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Policlinico Umerto I, Rome. From 2002 he is Associate Professor of Maxillo-Facial Surgery “Sapienza” Università di Roma School of Medicine and Dentistry. From 2009 he is Director of the Unità Operativa Semplice (U.O.S) di Traumatologia e Chirurgia d’urgenza Maxillo-facciale – Policlinico Umberto I. From 2014 he is Director of the Unità Operativa Complessa Chirurgia Maxillo-Facciale Policlinico Umberto I Roma. He was co-editor of “Il giornale italiano di chirurgia maxillofacciale” He attended various centers of excellence and university in Europe and United States. In addition to his medical practice and research, Piero Cascone serves on the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Maxillo-Facial Surgery and is a member of several Italian and international societies. From 1995 till 2007, he has served as the President of the Board of Directors of the University Consortium of the Province of Ragusa, Sicily. In this capacity, during his tenure the university activated 13 University courses and 6 specialistic University courses, including Medicine and Surgery, Agriculture, Law and four research centers in the fields of Biomedicine, Agriculture, informatics and languages. The Consortium now includes more than 400 professors and about 5,000 students. The past research has resulted in 2 textbooks, 178 publications in refereed journals and 7 book chapters.