Professor Antonio G. Spagnolo holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery, with specializations in Cardiology and Legal and Insurance Medicine, and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.  

He is a Full Professor of Legal and Insurance Medicine (scientific-disciplinary sector MED43, discipline: Clinical Bioethics) at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery “A. Gemelli” at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, where he teaches Bioethics in bachelor’s, master’s, and specialist degree courses, as well as in postgraduate schools, master’s programs, and professional development and refresher courses.  

Professor Spagnolo serves as Coordinator of the Bioethics and Medical Humanities Section within the Department of Safety and Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery “A. Gemelli” of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.  

He is also the Director of the Research Center for Clinical Bioethics and Medical Humanities (CRiBCeMH) at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Catholic University in Rome and is a member of the Governing Board of the University Center for Bioethics and Life Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.  

Professor Spagnolo is the President of the Clinical Bioethics Hospital Committee at the Gemelli Foundation University Hospital in Rome and a member of the Territorial Ethics Committee Lazio 3.  

He is the past president of the Ethics Committee of Bergamo at the Pope John XXIII Hospital and of the Ethics Committee of the Dermopathic Institute of the Immaculate (IDI-IRCCS) in Rome, a position he held until June 6, 2023.  

Professor Spagnolo is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and a consultant for the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.  

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the international bioethics journal *Medicina e Morale*, founded by Agostino Gemelli, and serves on the Advisory Board of several international scientific journals.

He is a member of the Italian Society of Legal and Insurance Medicine (SIMLA) and serves as President of a SIMLA working group on clinical ethics: GIBCE (Interdisciplinary Group of Clinical Bioethics and Consultation and Ethics in Healthcare).  

Professor Spagnolo is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications addressing various ethical issues in the biomedical field, with a particular focus on the ethics of biomedical experimentation and clinical ethics.