Closing event of the 850th anniversary of the University’s foundation
23 October 2025 09:00–17:00
Venue: Department of Law, UniMORE Via San Geminiano 3 – 41121 Modena (Italy)
Program
09:00 Introduction
Roberto Lucchini (UniMORE, FIU), Alberto Modenese (UniMORE), Carlo Adolfo Porro
(Rector UniMORE), Melissa McDiarmid (President Collegium Ramazzini), Daniele Mandrioli
(Scientific Director Ramazzini Institute)
09:30 Overture: Vocal and instrumental ensemble of UniMORE directed by Maestro
Antonella Coppi with music from the Ramazzini period
10:00 – Lessons from History (Chair Berenice Cavarra)Giuliano Franco, Revisiting Ramazzini’s Legacy: From his 1690 course on De Morbis
Artificum to Contemporary Education in Occupational MedicineFrancesco Carnevale, The Illustrated De Morbis Artificum Diatriba: An Iconographic
Study of Ramazzini
10:50 – Challenges of the Present – Part 1 (Chair: Fabriziomaria Gobba)
Florencia Harari, Occupational exposure to metals in EV batteries manufacturing and
recycling
Arthur Frank, Ramazzini and Asbestos: How he would have approached this issue
Kurt Straif, Climate crisis, public health and strategic actions for ambitious policy
Evgenia Oustromova, Nuclear accidents and cancer risk in the general and working
population
14:00 – Challenges of the Present – Part 2 (Chair: Alberto Modenese)
Giorgio Assennato The underreporting of occupational cancer
Sara De Matteis Occupational factors of Long-COVID in a population-based cohort in
Catalonia
Sergio Pecorelli, Rationale and new perspectives for Total Workers Health® approach
Yohama Caraballo-Arias Workplace Happiness: What Works and What Doesn’t:
Evidence-Based Intervention
16:00 – Challenges of the Future (Chair: Nicola Murgia)
Maria Teresa Cella Health promotion at the workplace: the Region Emilia-Romagna
experience
Maurilio Missere Ramazzini into the future. From observational to proactive medicine
Antonio Baldassarre AI applications in occupational health and safety
16:50-17:00 – Q&A and Wrap-up (Chair: Roberto Lucchini)