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Padova University
The geriatrics and gerontology activities are mainly at the Faculty of Medicine of Padua's University. In the Faculty of Sciences, the Physical Anthropology Unit has been working for years in biology of ageing, biological age determination, relationship between biological and chronological age, both for scientific purposes and for personal identification of human skeletal remains in the archaeological and forensic context. From an anthropological point of view, since ageing is an intrinsic, fundamental aspect of life, most of our understanding about ageing process belongs to natural history itself. Man is only a chapter in the book of history of life: he shares with all organisms a lot of functions and mechanisms. But in man, the interaction between biological and socio-cultural components leads to a particular ecological perspective of ageing. So, the research on the different aspects of ageing in different cultures, especially those of developing countries, collecting cross-sectional information by means of anthropological survey and anthropometric assessment, evaluating age, gender, socio-economic and residence differentials with regards to nutritional status and health, can lead to a better understanding of the biocultural determinants in world-wide elderly.
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| Prof. Andrea Giovanni Drusini |
Can be contacted at:
Department of Biology, University of Padova
Via Ugo Bassi 58/B
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Padova
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Date of Birth: July 13, 1947
Birth-place: Valdagno (Vicenza), Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: male
Marital Status: single
Education:
July 1972: M.D., conferred by University of Padova Medical School;
July 1975: Diploma from post-graduate school in Diagnostic Radiology, University of Padova Medical School;
July 1981: Diploma from post-graduate school in Philosophy, University of Padova;
July 1986: Diploma from post-graduate school in History of Medicine, University of Padova Medical School;
June 1991: International Diploma from post-graduate school of Human Ecology, Universities of Padua, Paris and Bruxelles.
Positions held:
January 1992 to present: Associate Professor of Human Biology, University of Padova, Faculty of Sciences;
1980 to 1991: Appointed research investigator in the Institute of Anthropology and then in the Department of Biology, University of Padova;
1973 to 1977: Assistant, Institute of Radiology, University of Padova Medical School.
Research Projects:
The Anchyses Project-Multidisciplinary Research on Ageing, in collaboration with University of South Carolina, U.S.A. (Prof. Paul G. Eleazer);
EXCELSA Cross-European Longitudinal Study on Ageing (EU PL 963299 CA Biomed 2, European Commission Science, Research and Development);
The Aging Process of the Veneti population in Adelaide (Australia), in collaboration with Prof. M. Henneberg, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Medical School, University of Adelaide, Australia (Prof. M. Henneberg);
FEARID Project, Forensic Ear Identification (EU PROJECT G6RD-CT-2001-00618, Italy, UK, The Netherlands);
Nasca Archaeological Excavation Project (with Centro Italiano Studi e Ricerche Atcheologiche Precolombiane) 1986-2002 (team’s physical anthropologist);
Easter Island Archaeological Project (with Centro Italiano Studi e Ricerche Atcheologiche Precolombiane) 1993-2002 (team’s physical anthropologist).
Scientific Associations Membership:
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Association for Anthropology and Gerontology
AAI-Associazione Antropologica Italiana
EAA - European Anthropological Association
GIAOF-Gruppo Italiano di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense (Italian Group of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology)
Human Biology Association
Languages spoken:
Italian (mother tongue)
English (full working knowledge)
Spanish (fluent)
French (full working knowledge)
Recent Publications:
Drusini A.G,
L’evoluzione della longevità (The Evolution of Longevity). Odeo Olimpico, n. 23 (1996-1999). Edizioni Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza, Vicenza, pp. 251-269. (2001)
Drusini A.G., G.P. Eleazer, M. Caiazzo, E. Veronese, N. Carrara, C. Ranzato, F. Businaro,
One-Leg Standing Balance and Functional Status in an Elderly Community Dwelling Population Northeast Italy. (Ageing Clinical and Experimental Research 14: 42-46.33, 2002)
Fortunato L., Drusini A.G.
Nutritional status and it’s biocultural determinants in semi-urban and rural ageing Peruvians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology (in press, 2003). |
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