biography

• Giuseppe Casale is a medical doctor, oncologist and gastroenterologlst. His career starts at the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute of Rome (Italy), where he spent his first years as a researcher. • In 1987 he founded in Rome Antea Associazione, one of the first not for profit organization providing palliative care in Italy; the organization, based in Rome (Italy), provides free hospice care to terminally ill patients, no longer responsive to specific treatments. • In 2005, he received the Golden Medal for merit acquired in the field of Public Health, awarded by the President of the Italian Republic C.A. Ciampi. • He is member of a number of National Technical Commissions on Palliative Care and Pain Therapy. • He is lecturer within many university post-graduate master courses and speaker in several seminars and national conferences. • He is the Principal Investigator of a series of researches projects. • He is author and co-author of more than 90 publications