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Elena Cesaretti

Nursing Sciences MEDS-24/C (formerly MED 45)

Biography

Graduate in nursing at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome. I graduated in 2022 with a master’s degree in nursing and obstetrics and am currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

I was a scholarship holder, worked in the intensive care unit in Belgium where I could improve my French level, then worked with the association of doctors without borders in Africa, precisely in Congo, at the age of 25, as coordinator of two clinics for patients with sexually transmitted infections and victims of sexual violence.

I have 15 years of experience in intensive care (cardiosurgery, coronary unit, neonatal intensive care).

I am a scrub nurse in general and gynecological surgery, who is an expert in the Da Vinci and Da vinci XI robots. Clinical tutor and I have been a teacher at the master of instruments in the operating room, participating as a speaker at several national congresses with Aico.

7 years of experience as Coordinator of the thoracic surgery, pulmonology and respiratory intensive care unit. I participated in the creation and inauguration of the CEMAR (respiratory diseases center) and the telemedicine center at the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli in Rome.

I was coordinator of the Intensive Care covid at the Columbus hospital during the health emergency managing 60 beds of intensive care and later coordinator of the operating room of the Mater Dei General Hospital in Rome.

Currently I am the nursing director of the Paideia International Hospital in Rome and a lecturer at the U.C.S.C. in Rome on the integrated course “first aid and nursing practice” in the course of medicine and surgery and lecturer at Unicamillus in the integrated course with focus on nursing in specialist surgery for students of the 2nd year.