Researcher profile

Antonio Ragusa

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Università degli Studi (University of Studies) of Milan and specialized in Obstetrics - Gynecology at Milan University. Currently Antonio Ragusa is Director/Head of obstetrics and Gynecology Unit at the Sassuolo Hospital, Italy. Antonio was full-time researcher at the Campus Bio medico University of Rome until January 12th 2024. Prof Ragusa is associated with the Institute on Atmospheric Pollution (CNR) with a collaboration assignment as a Senior Researcher to carry out collaborative activities to study the impact of environmental pollution in the prenatal and perinatal age. In 2010, Dr. Ragusa went to Haiti after the earthquake, on behalf of the “Marina Rava” ONG, where opened the delivery room and the department of obstetrics of the Saint Damien Hospital at Port Au Prince. Dr. Ragusa was also in service on board the San Marco hospital ship in 2013, on behalf of the NPH Italia, Fondazione Rava, during the "Mare Nostrum" operations, providing initial medical treatment to those stranded in the Mediterranean Sea, saved by the Italian Navy. Dr. Ragusa was President of the Confalonieri Ragonese Foundation till 2024, as president he has coordinated numerous national recommendations promulgated by the three main Italian scientific societies in the gynecological sector (SIGO, AOGOI, AUGUI) in the last years, these recommendations are visible to everyone on the official SIGO, AOGOI, AOGUI sites (https://www.aogoi.it/fondazione-confalonieri-ragonese/). From 2024 Antonio Ragusa is Chairman of the AOGOI Ethics Committee. He was scientific consultant for the Italian Ministry of Health and has published more than one hundred and thirty scientific papers and 20 books and / or book chapters on a national and international level. In this period, he mainly deals with perinatal medicine, evaluating new techniques for reducing unnecessary caesarean sections, and the consequences of plastic pollution on fetal / neonatal and human health.