ALFONSO GIANLUCA GUCCIARDO, MD, PhD

About me

• Med­i­c­i­nae Doc­tor (MD) (Reg­is­ter of Ital­ian Doctors).
• Spe­cial­ist in ENT (not as a surgeon).
• Spe­cial­ist in Bioethics & Sex­ol­o­gy (MHum).
• PhD 1 (DDD): Doc­tor of Phi­los­o­phy (High­ly hon­or­able with praise) in Per­form­ing Arts.
• PhD 2 (DDD): Doc­tor of Phi­los­o­phy (High­ly hon­or­able with praise) in Human­i­ties.
• Diplo­ma hon­oris causa in Per­form­ing Arts (h.c. BA)
• Expert in Per­form­ing Arts Med­i­cine and in Voice Med­i­cine, work­ing with many Ital­ian and For­eign Associations.
• Show Dance, Fed­er­al Instruc­tor (by FIPASS / CSAIn / CONI — Nation­al Olympic Com­mit­tee in Italy).

• Adj. Prof. at the Music Con­ser­va­to­ries and at the Uni­ver­si­ties in Italy, since 2004.
• Vis­it­ing or Guest Pro­fes­sor, at UFSJ Brazil, and at USEK Lebanon, and at UMCS Poland.
• Invit­ed Lec­tur­er or/and Guest Teach­ing Assis­tant or/and Pro­fes­sor, from the y. 2000, in cours­es, work­shops and lec­tures (includ­ing 3 fea­tured pre­sen­ta­tions) in Brazil, France, Italy, Lebanon, Mex­i­co, Poland, Spain, USA etc.

• Founder and Chair of CEIMArs, Ital­ian non-prof­it Cen­tre for Per­form­ing Arts Medicine.
• Coor­di­na­tor of the 4IPAM, i. e. the “Per­ma­nent Obser­va­to­ry for Per­form­ing Arts Med­i­cine in Italy” (c/o PAS, Paler­mo, Italy).
• Cre­ator and sci­en­tif­ic and edu­ca­tion­al man­ag­er of the Uni­ver­si­ty Mas­ter’s degree in “Per­form­ing Arts Med­i­cine” of Uni­Cu­sano, Italy.
• Cre­ator and sci­en­tif­ic and edu­ca­tion­al man­ag­er of the Uni­ver­si­ty VET Pro­gram in “Per­form­ing Arts Med­i­cine relat­ed Ath­le­tol­ogy” of Uni­Cu­sano, Italy.
• Direc­tor of the edi­to­r­i­al series “Sci­en­tia et Ars / Sci­ence and Arts” (c/o Qanat Publ., Paler­mo, Italy): from 2016 to 2021.
• Direc­tor of the edi­to­r­i­al series “Fos. Phy­los­o­phy, Med­i­cine, Ped­a­gogy and Sci­ence of Per­form­ing Arts” (c/o Di Lean­dro Publ., Rome, Italy): from 2022.

• Author of many sci­en­tif­ic Arti­cles, of some peer reviews eval­u­a­tions, and of a few print­ed essays in Ital­ian only at the moment: “Voce e Ses­su­al­ità”, “Toc­care e Con­tattare in Med­i­c­i­na del­la Voce”, “Silen­zio e Voce”, “Curare l’Arte, il Cor­po e la Voce”, “Neu­ro-Auri­co­lo-Ter­apia in Med­i­c­i­na del­la voce”, “Trattare voci e per­sone”, “Voce, Io e Soci­età”, “I lem­mi del­la voce”, “Toc­care e con­tattare nei set­ting clin­i­ci e didat­ti­ci per la voce artis­ti­ca” [i.e.  respec­tive­ly, “Voice & Sex­u­al­i­ty”, “Hap­tics in Voice Med­i­cine”, “Silence and Voice onstage and off stage”, “Care & Cure of Art, of Body, and of Voice”, “Neu­ro-Auricu­lo-Ther­a­py in Vocol­o­gy”, “To care and to cure voic­es and per­sons”, “Voice, Ego, and Soci­ety”, “The Lem­mas of the voice” and “Touch and Con­tact dur­ing both the clin­i­cal and the ped­a­gog­i­cal set­tings for the artis­tic voice”].
• Exter­nal Review­er (in Pho­ni­atrics, and in Speech Pathol­o­gy) for Jour­nal of Hear­ing Sci­ence (J Hear Sci).

• Life Hon. Mem­ber of The Pacif­ic Voice & Speech Foun­da­tion, PVSF, S. Fran­cis­co, USA.
• Spe­cial­ist and Asso­ciate Fac­ul­ty Mem­ber and Post-Pub­li­ca­tion Peer Review­er of Fac­ul­ty Opin­ions (for­mer­ly: Fac­ul­ty of 1000 Med­i­cine), Lon­don, UK (field: “Laryn­gol­o­gy, SLP and Voice Med­i­cine”): F1000.
• Inter­na­tion­al Board Mem­ber of the Kore­an Foun­da­tion for Voice of Per­form­ing Arts, KOVPA, Seoul, ROK.
• Mem­ber of the Asso­ci­a­tion de Préven­tion San­té des Artistes, APSArts, Lille, F.
• Reg­u­lar Mem­ber of Col­legium Medico­rum The­atri – CoMeT: World Asso­ci­a­tion of The­atre Doc­tors in Salzburg, A (for­mer­ly, in: Gronin­gen, NL).

About me

If you wish to contact me for clinical or research reasons,
please write to me at: voice.md.it@gmail.com

I don’t like talking about myself. Rather I love being who I am. Everywhere people like to hear my voice.