Phone: +39-051-6366850
E-mail address: fanio.baruffaldi@ior.it
Baruffaldi Fabio, Physicist
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Date of Birth
01/11/1962
Qualification
Medical Physicist
Current assignment
Senior researcher, responsible of the unit “development and evaluation of biomedical technologies”
Title of qualification awarded
Master of Science in physics, University of Bologna
Other qualifications awarded
Post-master specialization in medical physics, University of Bologna
Positions held
Since 1991 he has been working at the Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, and he is the responsible of the “development and evaluation of biomedical technologies” group. Fabio Baruffaldi collaborates to research projects regarding imaging in orthopaedics and the technology transfer to the clinical orthopaedic practice, such as:
- European project VIRTUS: large scale diffusion of telemedicine services (2001-2003)
- Regional project co-financed by regione Emilia- Romagna HandHealth: for the validation of new handheld devices in the orthopaedic practice (2004-2006)
- National project co-financed by the Health Ministry: validation of computer aided medicine in orthopaedics, co-financed by the Health Ministry (2005-2007)
- European project LHDL: Living Human Digital Library: Interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculo-skeletal apparatus, (2006-2009)
- European project VPHOP: The Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human, future technologies for the prediction of risk of fractures in the osteoporotic patient (2008-2012)
- National project co-financed by the Health Ministry: Early diagnosis of pending failures of total hip arthroplasty with hard-to-hard bearings (2010-2014)
- National project co-financed by the Health Ministry: Manufacturing information of orthopedic articular prosthesis. Analysis of specific safety issues for radiotherapy, magnetic resonance, orthopedic surgery and identification of a traceability model (2012-2015)
- European Project MIMAS: Procedures allowing medical implant manufacturers to demonstrate compliance with MRI safety regulations (2018-2021)
- National project co-financed by the Health Ministry - ForceLoss: differential diagnosis of force loss in fragile elders (2021-2024
- European project In Silico World (ISW): Lowering barriers to ubiquitous adoption of In Silico Trials (2021-2024)
- National Plan for Complementary Investments to the PNRR - project DARE: Digital Lifelong Prevention (2022-2026)
- European project METASTRA: Computer-Aided effective fracture risk stratification of patients with vertebral metastases for personalised treatment through robust computational models validated in clinical settings (2023-2028)
Fabio Baruffaldi is also working on microtomography techniques (micro-CT) for the investigation of bone tissues and biomaterials, in strict connection with the other units of the lab working on biomechanical characterization.
Languages
English (good)
Technologies
Medical imaging, ICT applications for healthcare
Teaching activities
Seminars about technology transfer and health technology assessment
Scientific activities
See Pubmed Baruffaldi-F
Clinical and/or Scientific interests
Radiological diagnostic techniques, methods for characterizing bone tissue, Information and Communication Technology for healthcare