Umberto Balottin Child Neuropsychiatry Full Professor at the University of Insubria, Varese, from 1999 to 31/10/2007 and at the University of Pavia from 1/11/2007 until now.
Headmaster of the School in Child Neuropsychiatry of the University of Pavia. Teacher in others medical speciality schools at the University of Pavia. Medical ruling, outpatients’ department supervisor and chief of the language and learning disabilities laboratory from 1980 to 1994 at the Child Neuropsychiatry Division of “IRCCS C.Mondino” Institute. Headmaster of the Child Neuropsychiatry Unit of the Azienda Ospedaliera Macchi of Varese from september 1994 to 31/10/2007. From 1/11/2007 until now headmaster of the Child Neuropsychiatry Division of
“IRCCS C.Mondino” Institute .
Research activity is documented by about 350 pubblications (more than 120 on indexed magazines in Child Nervous System, Neurology, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Cephalalgia, Headache, International Journal of Psychosomatic, European Neurology, Journal of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. More than 160 pubblications indexed in SCOPUS and EMBASE).
The scientific activity is mainly dedicated to psychopathology, psychodinamic and psychiatric therapy of adolescence, psychosomathic disturbances, headache and migraine in childhood and adolescence.
Member of the Italian Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Society, of the Società Italiana di Psicoterapia Medica (SIPM) of the Italian Headache Society, of the International Headache Society (IHS), of the American Headache Society (AHS), of the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP), , of the International Society for adolescent Psychiatry (ISAP). Past President of of Executive of Italian Full Professors in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry.
