CV - Alessio Degl´Innocenti

Born 1961 in Stockholm. Italian-Swedish.

CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Psychology, Göteborg University, neuropsychologist, and section manager forensic psychiatry

MAIN EDUCATION
1998 PhD thesis “Source memory and executive functions in normal aging and depression”

1995 Cognitive-Behavioural therapist, Centre for Cognitive Therapy, Linköping

1990 Psychologist (MSc in Psychology), Department of Psychology, Stockholm University

OTHER EDUCATION
1998 Dyslexia, Uppsala University

1997 Medical Statistics (part 2), Göteborg University

1997 Methods in Experimental Research, Göteborg University

1997 Research Evaluation, Göteborg University

1997 Medical Statistics (part 1), Göteborg University

1996 Methods in Basal Neuroscience, from gene to behaviour, Göteborg University

1996 Pedriatic Neuropsychology, Göteborg University

1995 Clinical Neuropsychology, Göteborg University

1994 Luria's Neuropsychological Method, Stockholm University

1992 Organisational Development and Leadership, Göteborg University

1991 Methods in Research and Investigation of Trials, Göteborg University

TRAINING IN PHARMACEUTICALS
2006 Economic evaluation in health care, UK

2003 Assessing treatment impact using patient-Reported outcomes: Challenges in study design, conduct and analysis, DIA (Drug Information Association), USA

1999 Responsible for development of electronic case report forms, The Netherlands

1999 Workshop in clinical trials, Swedish Pharmaceutical Society

1999 Good clinical practice/standard operating procedures, The Netherlands

LEADERSHIP
2007 AstraZeneca

2003 Techniques of Interview and Assessments of Personality, Sweden

2003 Self Assessment, Sweden

2002 Leadership and Communication, Sweden

OTHER UNIVERSITY COURSES
2005 Scientific tutoring, Göteborg University

2001 Business English, Cambridge Course, Göteborg

1999 Italian, Göteborg University

SKILLS IN LANGUAGES
Swedish

English

Italian

ADVISOR ON MASTER’S THESIS
2003 In Pharmaceutical Bioscience Development and results of a questionnaire survey, Göteborg University

2003 In Pharmaceutical Bioscience The collaboration between Health Economy & Outcomes Research and Clinical Information Management, Göteborg University

1998 In Psychology Source memory and executive functioning in patients with major depression, Göteborg University

1997 In Psychology Frontal dysfunctions in patients with major depression, Göteborg University

1995 In Psychology The association between activity of serotonin and executive functioning in patients with major depression, Göteborg University

PUBLICATIONS
1. Arbuckle R, Frye MA, Brecher M, Paulsson B, Rajagopalan K, Palmer S, Degl’ Innocenti A (2009). The psychometric validation of the Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) in patients with bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research, 165(1-2), 163-174.
2. Brozek JL, Guyatt GH, Heels-Ansdell D, Degl’ Innocenti A, Armstrong D, Fallone CA, Wiklund I, Veldhuyzen van Zanten S, Chiba N, Barkun AN, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ (2009). Specific HRQL instruments and symptom scores were more responsive than preference-based generic instruments in patients with GERD. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 62(1), 102-110.
3. Johansson M, Finizia C, Degl’ Innocenti A, Rydén A (2007). Is a line the same as a box? Speech assessment by VAS is not superior to Likert scales in laryngeal cancer patients. Medical Science Monitoring, 13, CR481-487.
4. Wahlquist P, Guyatt GH, Armstrong D, Degl’ Innocenti A, Heels-Ansdell D, El-Dika S, Wiklund I, Fallone CA, Tanser L, van Zanten SV, Austin P, Barkun AN, Chiba N, Schünemann HJ (2007). The work productivity and activity impairment questionnaire for patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (WPAI-GERD). PharmacoEconomics, 25(5), 385-396.
5. Puhan MA, Guyatt GH, Armstrong D, Wiklund I, Fallone CA, Heels-Ansdell D, Degl’ Innocenti A, Veldhuyzen van Zanten SJO, Tanser L, Barkun AN, Chiba N, Austin P, El-Dika S, Schünemann HJ (2006). Validation of a symptom diary for patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease. Alimentary, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 23, 531-541.
6. Dahlöf B, Degl’ Innocenti A, Elmfeldt D, Garcia Puig J, Gundersen T, Hosie J, Januszewich W, Lindström CJ, Magometschnigg D, Safar M, Tanser P, Toutouzas P, Waeber B, Wiklund IK (2005). Felodipine-Metoprolol combination tablet: maintained health-related quality of life in the presence of substantial blood pressure reduction. American Journal of Hypertension, 18, 1313-1319.
7. El-Dika S, Guyatt GH, Armstrong D, Degl’ Innocenti A, Wiklund I, Fallone CA, Tanser L, van Zanten S, Heels-Ansdell D, Wahlqvist P, Chiba N, Barkun AN, Austin P, Schünemann HJ (2005). The impact of illness in patients with moderate to severe gastroesophageal reflux disease. BMC Gastroenterology, 5:23, 1-8.
8. Degl’ Innocenti A, Guyatt GH, Wiklund I, Heels-Ansdell D, Armstrong D, Fallone CA, Tanser L, van Zanten S, El-Dika S, Chiba N, Barkun AN, Austin P, Schünemann HJ (2005). The influence of demographic factors and health-related quality of life on treatment satisfaction in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease treated with esomeprazole. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 3, 4, 1-12.
9. Fallone CA, Guyatt GH, Armstrong D, Wiklund I, Degl’ Innocenti A, Heels-Ansdell D, Barkun AN, Chiba N, van Zanten SJOV, El-Dika S, Austin P, Tanser L, Schünemann HJ (2004). Do physicians correctly assess patient symptom severity in gastro-esophageal reflux disease? Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 18, 1161-1169.
10. Schünemann HJ, Armstrong D, Degl’ Innocenti A, Wiklund I, Fallone C, Tanser L, van Zanten S, Heels-Ansdell D, El-Dika S, Chiba N, Barkun A, Austin P, Guyatt GH (2004). A randomised multicenter trial to evaluate simple utility elicitation techniques in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease. Medical Care, 42, 1132-1142.
11. Degl’ Innocenti A, Elmfeldt D, Hofman A, Lithell H, Olofsson B, Skoog I, Trenkwalder P, Zanchetti A, Wiklund I (2004). Health-related quality of life during treatment of elderly patients with hypertension – Results from the Study on COgnition and Prognosis in the Elderly (SCOPE). Journal of Human Hypertension, 18, 239-245.
12. Degl’ Innocenti A, Hassing LB, Ingelgård A, Kulich K, Wiklund I (2004). Measuring treatment satisfaction. A review of randomised controlled drug trials. Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs, 21, 39-47.
13. Lauritsen K, Degl’ Innocenti A, Hendel L, Praest J, Lytje MF, Clemmensen-Rotne K, Wiklund I (2004). Symptom recording in a randomised clinical trial: paper diaries vs. electronic or telephone data capture. Controlled Clinical Trials, 25, 585-597.
14. Coyne KS, Wiklund I, Schmier J, Halling K, Degl’ Innocenti A, Revicki D (2003). Development and validation of a disease-specific treatment satisfaction questionnaire for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 18, 907-915.
15. Degl’ Innocenti A, Elmfeldt D, Hansson L, Hofman A, Lithell H, Olofsson B, Skoog I, Trenkwalder P, Zanchetti A, Wiklund I (2002). Cognitive function and health-related quality of life in elderly patients with hypertension – baseline data from the Study on COgnition and Prognosis in the Elderly (SCOPE). Blood Pressure, 11, 157-165.
16. Degl’ Innocenti A, Ågren H, Zachrisson O, Bäckman L (1999). Försämrade exekutiva funktioner hos deprimerade patienter med låg serotoninaktivitet. Swedish Medical Journal, 45, 4918-4919.
17. Degl’ Innocenti A, Ågren H, Zachrisson O, Bäckman L (1999). Effects of age and prolactin response to d-flenfluramine on executive functioning in major depression. Biological Psychiatry, 45, 512-517.
18. Degl' Innocenti A, Bäckman L (1999). Source memory in major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 54, 205-209.
19. Degl’ Innocenti A (1998). Source memory and executive functions in normal aging and depression. Doctoral dissertation. Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
20. Degl’ Innocenti A, Ågren H, Bäckman L (1998). Executive deficits in major depression. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 97, 182-188.
21. Degl’ Innocenti A, Bäckman L (1996). Aging and source memory: Influences of intention to remember and associations with frontal lobe tests. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 3, 307-319.
22. Lehmann WM, Gottfries C-G, Hellström, Degl’ Innocenti A (1996). Experience from a memory center at a university hospital. Journal of Nordic Psychiatry, 50, 63-70.