Carlo Tascini is an Italian Medical Doctor, specialising in clinical microbiology and virology and infectious diseases. He is currently Head of the Infectious Diseases Clinic and Full Professor of the Infectious Diseases, DAME department of Medicine of the Udine University, Italy.
He initially trained in Perugia, specialising in Infectious Diseases at the Perugia Hospital from 1989 to 1993 and subsequently in the Microbiology Institute of the University of Perugia until 1997. From 2000 to 2016 he worked in the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Pisa University Hospital, as acting director position, and was responsible for the management of the internal laboratory of Microbiology set-up. He contributed to the set-up of an integrated microbiology structure within the infectious diseases department, involving real time daily confrontation with patient management within the clinic, forging his knowledge on the importance of diagnosis in supporting therapy, before moving back to the clinical environment, enforced by the microbiological experience. Moving to the infectious disease clinical role, the microbiology experience has set the basis for and integrated relationship in the Versilia/Pisa environment.
During this time, he managed complex patients often in collaboration with specialists from other departments and disciplines (hepatology and oncology, transplant patients, patients with resistant-pathogen infections admitted in intensive care units or burn units, complex medical patients such as those with rheumatological diseases, with complications arising from diabetes (diabetic foot infections), patients with severe cardiac infections such as either endocarditis and intracardiac device infections (pacemakers and defibrillators) as well as patients with severe orthopaedic or neurosurgical prosthesis infections.
In 2016 he was appointed Director of the Complex Operating Unit of the “First Division of Infectious Diseases” of the Cotugno Hospital, Colli Hospitals, Naples. As head of the Cotugno Hospital in Naples, reference center for cardiology, pneumology, cardiac surgery and infectious diseases considered as regional and extra-regional reference center for infectious diseases, in particular for meningo-encephalitis, HIV infection, chronic hepatitis and for all infectious diseases, with his team, he managed severe and complex infections including meningitis and meningo-encephalitis, endocarditis, sepsis, malaria, and all severe and infectious diseases requiring urgent management such as measles, chicken pox, typhus, imported tropical pathologies, tuberculosis in both adults and children/infants aged 30 days and above affected by diffusive diseases such as meningitis, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox. The paediatric experience was also expanded as he was appointed infectious disease consultant for the Santo Bono paediatric hospital – Pausillipon.