Dr. Christian Pristipino
Founding President, Italian Association for Systems Medicine (ASSIMSS); Outreach and communication officer, European Association of Systems Medicine (EASYM). Rome, Italy.
CHRISTIAN PRISTIPINO is an interventional cardiologist in Rome, Italy since 1998 working in a public hospital where he also coordinates research activities. He is seating in the board of the European Society of Systems Medicine (EASYM) since 2018. He has been the Founding President of the Italian Association for Systems Medicine and Healthcare (ASSIMSS) from 2014 to 2017 and he is the chairman of several official consensus and position papers from scientific cardiologic societies at the national and European level. He also edited a book on clinical systems approaches in ischemic heart disease entitled: “Psychotherapy for ischemic heart disease. An evidence-based clinical approach”. He authored or co-authored more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals with a total impact factor of over 510 and an H index 21. Christian has also founded in 2013 an hospital center for personalized and systems medicine at San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome, Italy and served as Regional President of the Italian Association of Interventional Cardiology between 2008 and 2009. He has been elected as Member of the Nucleus of Computers in Cardiology Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology 2002-2008. He is collaborating with Italian System Society (AIRS) in congresses, publications and researches since 2013, and he is an invited member of the Italian Association of Systems Epistemology and Methodology (AIEMS).
Session 1: SYSTEMS/NETWORK MEDICINE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Day 2: September 12, 2019 | Session 1 | 11:40 AM - NOON
Systems research, clinical practice and management: the italian road to systems medicine
Christian Pristipino, MD, Founding President, Italian Association for Systems Medicine (ASSIMSS); Outreach and communication officer, European Association of Systems Medicine (EASYM). Rome, Italy.
Systems medicine aims to address the properties of interacting complex systems, from molecules, to psychological, social and environmental dimensions. This novel ecosystemic framework challenges classic medical paradigms based on reductionism, striving to enhance the efficacy of therapies at both the individual patient and individual event level. However, despite to date it has been only initiated at the research level, to be developed, systems medicine still requires an extraordinary interdisciplinary effort also at the clinical and societal levels. In order to address this unmet need, in 2014, 26 experts coming from different disciplines (medicine, psychology, nursing, systems science, epistemology, management, pedagogy, sociology) founded in Italy the first scientific society for Systems Medicine (ASSIMSS). ASSIMSS is working to cooperatively develop an actionable perspective with an interdisciplinary approach at 3 interconnected levels: research, clinical and health care systems management. Indeed, new interdisciplinary scientific tools are needed to be harmonised to obtain new individual taxonomies/ontologies: from quantum approaches to big data mining, from fuzzy inductive reasoning to network science. At the clinical level, new approaches involving all healthcare practitioners are needed to develop truly personalised care encompassing the patients’ subjective world and to obtain patients’ engagement, especially when using highly technological tools. Finally, new specific management strategies are needed to implement personalised care in the real world, to adapt medical education, to ensure a sustainable development and equity. The society is operating in mixed working and task-groups, both at the local and national level, also involving Italian health care authorities.
Session 4: DRUG REPURPOSING AND NETWORK MEDICINE
DAY 3: September 13, 2019 | Session CO-CHAIR | 9:20 AM – 10:30 AM
Christian Pristipino, MD, Interventional Cardiology Unit, San Filippo Neri ASL Roma 1 Hospital, Founding President, Italian Association for Systems Medicine (ASSIMSS), Roma, Italy.