Experience

IZSA&M

• Veterinary Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Cooperation, Development and Research Unit - Expert at CBPP OIE Reference Laboratory

  • May 1985 - Present

  Massimo Scacchia is a Veterinary Doctor at Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” in Teramo (IZSAM), Italy. Borne in 1959, graduated in 1985 and employed by IZSAM since 1990. He has worked over the years in the field of Veterinary diagnostics, in particular Pathology, Bacteriology and Parasitology. From 2008 to 2018 Head of Animal Health Laboratory, OIE Expert at Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) Reference Laboratory and Brucellosis OIE Expert until March 2017. In this context, it has carried out seven OIE Twinning projects, four for CBPP and three for Brucellosis. In 2006, the Namibian government requested his presence for a period of 6 months, in order to train Namibian colleagues, in the post-mortem examination, at the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Windhoek, Namibia (CVL). From August 2007 to August 2009 was Team leader for Diagnostic Activities and Research, CVL; during this time he advised in improving diagnostic performances, Quality System, research project proposals and also restructuring activities of the CVL and its peripheral Laboratory in Ondangwa. He carried out research activities on exotic disease, for the Italian context, as CBPP, Lumpy Skin Disease, African Horse Sickness, African Swine Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Heart Water Disease, Dourine and others diseases as Brucellosis, Malignant Catarrhal Fever, and Rabies in Kudu. He has done animal studies in the pathogenesis and development of new vaccines for CBPP in collaboration with some African National Veterinary Laboratories. With over 25 years of experience in Africa, he is now Head of the Cooperation, Research and Development Unit at the IZSAM. He published more than one hundred scientific publications in the veterinary field. Show less