Elio Guzzanti (August 18, 1920 – May 2, 2014) was an Italian doctor and politician. He was a university teacher at

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (English: ''Catholic University of the Sacred Heart'', colloquially the ''Catholic University of Milan''), known as UCSC or UNICATT or simply Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 19 ...

of his native city,

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. He was

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Lamberto Dini Lamberto Dini CGMG (born 1 March 1931) is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st Prime Minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996, and Forei ...

's non-partisan members government.

Biography

Specialist in

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s and in

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, he was director of the hospitals Santo Spirito, San Camillo and

Policlinico Umberto I Located in the Quartiere San Lorenzo, the Policlinico Umberto I of Rome is the polyclinic of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Sapienza Università di Roma. The second largest public hospital in Italy (after the Policlinico Sant'Orsola-M ...

in Rome. From 1976 to 1984 and from 1991 to 1993 he was a member of the Italian Superior Council of Health. From 1985 to 1994 he was health director of the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital and from 1996 to 1998 he was director of the Agency for Regional Health Services. Author of numerous publications on health organization, from 17 January 1995 to 17 May 1996 he was

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with the

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. He was president of the scientific committee of the Cesare Serono Foundation. On 28 October 2009, following the resignation of the President of the

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Region, Piero Marrazzo, he was appointed by the Berlusconi Cabinet as Commissioner for Health in the same Region. He was scientific director of the Institute for Scientific Hospitalisation and Care IRCCS Oasi di

Troina Troina ( Sicilian: ''Traina'') is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Enna, Sicily, southern Italy. It is located in the Nebrodi Park. History Excavations have proved that the area of Troina was settled as early as the 7t ...

(Enna). He was

Paolo Guzzanti Paolo Guzzanti (born 1 August 1940) is an Italian journalist and politician. He was previously a member of the Italian Socialist Party. Biography Born in Rome, he is the nephew of Elio Guzzanti and father to actors Corrado, Sabina and Caterina. ...

's uncle, a

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and

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belonging to

Responsible Initiative People and Territory (''Popolo e Territorio'', PT), originally Responsible Initiative (''Iniziativa Responsabile''), was a centre-right parliamentary party active in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy in 2011–2013. Launched on 20 January 2011, t ...

, whose children Corrado,

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and

Caterina Caterina is a feminine given name which is an Italian and Catalan form of the name ''Katherine''. Notable people with the name include: In music: * Caterina Assandra, Italian composer and Benedictine nun * Caterina Bueno, Italian singer and folk ...

are

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s and

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. He died on May 2, 2014 at the age of 93 at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, where he had been hospitalized for a few days.

References

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