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scientific seminars and congresses. He is Editor-in-Chief of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems, the Journal of Clinical Medicine (Section of Psychiatry), and the Italian Journal of the Addictions. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Frontiers in Psychiatry. He lives and works in Pietrasanta.



Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani was born in Pietrasanta (Lucca) on April 21st, 1984. He graduated in Medicine at Pisa University in 2009 and became a specialist in Psychiatry cum laude again in Pisa in 2015. He graduated from the Doctorate Programme in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Siena University in 2020. In 2017 he was officially recognised as possessing all the credentials required to become an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. He has been teaching Addiction Medicine at Pisa University since 2013. He is a Professor of Addiction Medicine at the Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences in Rome. He received the Chimera Award in Grenoble, France, in 2021. His field of interest is Addiction Medicine, particularly regarding opioid addiction and dual-disorder patients. He is a member of AU-CNS and is an active collaborator of EUROPAD and WFTOD. He is President of the Pisa School of Clinical and Experimental Psychiatry, founded in 2017 and a PISA-School of Addiction Medicine teacher member. He was a fellow at British Columbia University (Vancouver, Canada) in the spring and summer of 2014 and at Rockefeller University (NY, USA) in the fall of 2014. He has worked as a physician in charge at ASL Toscana Nord Occidentale (Versilia, North-Western Tuscany) since 2016. He has published papers in Italian (over 20) and English (over 90) and has actively contributed to more than 20 congresses and seminars. He is the Associate Director of Frontiers in Psychiatry, Addictive Disorders section, and is a member of the editorial board of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems. He lives in Marina di Pietrasanta and works in Viareggio.

Matteo Pacini was born in Pisa on January 24th, 1975. He graduated in Medicine at Pisa University cum laude in 1999 and specialised in Psychiatry there in 2003. He has been professor of Addiction Medicine in university post-graduate courses since 2011. He is a Professor of Addiction Medicine at the Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences in Rome and a PISA-School of Addiction Medicine teaching member. His fields of interest are Addiction Medicine, Forensic Psychiatry and Dual Disorders. He collaborates with Europad, representing Italy on its international scientific committee. He received the Europad Chimera career award in Krakow in 2018 and won research prizes for one paper about QT prolongation during methadone maintenance (Europad, Pietrasanta, 2001) and then for another one on the long-term outcome of dual diagnosis heroin addicts in agonist treatment (SOPSI, Rome, 2002). He has published over 30 works in Italian and over 90 in English. He has actively contributed to over 50 congresses and seminars. He is a member of the editorial board of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems. He lives and works in Pisa.