Curriculum Vitae Giuseppe Insalaco, MD Date and place of birth 17/06/1958, Palermo Nationality: Italian Home address: Via Mazzini, 43 90139 Palermo (Italy) Office address “Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology A. Monroy”- National Research Council of Italy Via Ugo La Malfa, 153 – 90146 Palermo (Italy) Tel: (+39)0916809110 Fax: (+39)0916809120 e-mail: insalaco@ibim.cnr.it PRESENT POSITION Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy EDUCATION 1977 High school graduation: Liceo "G. Galilei", Palermo 1983 Medical degree – University of Palermo 1988 Post-graduate diploma - Respiratory Disease MAIN RESEARCH EXPERIENCE and POSITIONS 1987-88 “Research Associate” at the “Department of Physiology and Biophysics” and “Pulmonary Division”, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA 31.12.1988 Researcher of the Institute Respiratory Pathophysiology of C.N.R. today named: “Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology A. Monroy” 05.04.89-13.05.89; 30.04.90-19.05.90 Visiting researcher at the "Pulmonary Division", "University of Texas Medical Branch", Galveston, Texas, (USA) 1992 Head of scientific strategic project Ev-K2 C.N.R.: "Effects of high altitude sojourn on cardio-respiratory function during wakefulness and sleep” 1997-2000 Member of the European working group “TOSAFES” (treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea with functional electrical stimulation) 1999-2001 Professor of Post Graduate School of Respiratory Diseases of the University of Palermo Italy 31.12.2001 Senior Researcher “Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology A. Monroy”- Italian National Research Council 2002-2005 Chief of the Respiratory Pathophysiology division of “Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology A. Monroy”- Italian National Research Council 2003-2008 Clinical chief of “Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology A. Monroy” - Italian National Research Council 2012 Chief of the branch “Innovative technologies for the study of respiratory disorders during sleep” of the “Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology A. Monroy” Fields of Interest Sleep Medicine Respiratory Pathophysiology Reviewer activity of articles submitted to Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Hypertension, Chest, European Respiratory Journal, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, Rassegna di Patologia dell’Apparato Respiratorio.