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Prof Dr Gennaro D’Amato MD, FAAAAI, FERS University Professor of Respiratory Medicine Division of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Department of Chest Diseases High specialty Hospital “A. Cardarelli”, Napoli, Italy Chairman WAO committee on Climate Change, biodiversity and Allergy Gennaro D'Amato graduated in Medicine and Surgery summa cum laude in 1970 in the University of Naples (Italy);Board in Respiratory Medicine and Phtisiology summa cum laude University of Naples "Federico II" ,1972;

Board in Allergy and Clinical Immunology summa cum laude ,University of Florence,1975. Director, Division of Pneumology and Allergology, Department of Chest Diseases, High Speciality Hospital "A.Cardarelli" Naples, Italy from 1985 to 2014; Consultant Professor of Respiratory Allergy, Medical School of Specialization in Respiratory Medicine, University of Naples "Federico II" from 1984 to present. He had periods of research stages at St.Mary's Hospital-Medical School in London; Hopital Universitaire Saint Marguerite in Marseille, France; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA. At national level he served in the directive board of Italian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology and in the Italian Societies of Pneumology.In particular he served as general secretary of Italian Society of Respiratory Diseases from 2006 to 2009 and, from 2011 to 2013, as chairman of clinical area in the Italian Association of Pneumology (AIPO). In AIPO he is now chairman of national group of study on "Asthma-COPD-Respiratory Allergy".From 2013 to present he is chairman of the GARD working group on "Environment and Respiratory Health" of Italian Ministry of health. He serves in the committee of evaluation of scientific university production in Italy. He is active in the GINA Italian board.

At the international level he served from 1995 to 2005 as chairman of committee on "Air pollution, aerobiology and allergic respiratory diseases" of European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and from 2008 to 2009 he served as chairman of the joint task force EAACI-ERS to produce documents on "Climate change, air pollution and respiratory diseases".

From 2008 at present he is chairman of committee on "Climate change, air pollution and allergic respiratory diseases" of World Allergy Organization. Starting from 2012 he acts also as chairman of the WAO task force on “Meteorological Conditions, Climate Change, New Emerging Factors and Bronchial Asthma." to produce a Statement of the World Allergy Organization published on WAO Journal with the collaboration of 48 top leaders in the world on this topic. He is currently member of several societies in the context of respiratory diseases ERS, Interasma and ATS) and allergic diseases AAAAI,EAACI,WAO) and he acts as invited speaker and/or chairman in several congresses of these societies in symposia and in plenary sessions in all the world (Europe, USA, Canada, Asia, South America, Australia).

He has been invited as speaker and chairman also in the Congresses of World Society of internal medicine. He serves or has served in the editorial board of several medical journal such as Clinical and Experimental Allergy; Allergy; Clinical and Translational Allergy; Journal of Investigation of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; Respiratory Medicine ;European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine; Journal of Allergy; Monaldi Archives for Chest Diseases; Aerobiology and others. He is reviewer fo the major medical scientific journals such as The Lancet; AJRCCM; JACI; CTAl; CEA; Respiratory Medicine and others. He authored more than 400 papers (cumulative IF 650; H index 44) in peer review journals. He served as editor of 3 books in english, as unique author of 14 books in italian and authored several chapters of books and monographs. He was the winner of the academic qualification as university full professor of respiratory medicine in the CINECA-MIUR evaluation (Italian Ministry of University).

Among the original manuscripts in international medical journals there are the followings: - D’Amato G, et al. Allergenic pollen and Pollen Allergy in Europe .Position Paper of EAACI. Allergy 2007 I.F.: 6.3 645 citations This is the position paper written by committee on “Aerobiology, air pollution and Allergy” of European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Chairman Prof Gennaro D’Amato) for an update on allergenic pollen and pollen allergy in Europe. -

D’Amato G. et al. Thunderstorm-asthma and pollen allergy. Allergy. 2007 I.F:6.3, 475 citations This is a manuscript focalizing at best the epidemics of thunderstorm asthma in the world and the etiopathogenetic mechanism.

- D’Amato G et al. Facebook: a new trigger for asthma? Lancet. 2010 Nov 20;376(9754):1740. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62135-6 I.F:44. 20 citations This is the first description of a case of aggravation of asthma induced by the abuse of social networks such as facebook in a young man. Lancet organized a conference of mass media in all the world with authors to publicize this clinical case.

- D'Amato G, et al. Thunderstorm-related asthma: what happens and why Clin Exp Allergy. 2016 Mar;46(3):390-6. I.F:5.58 4 citations All patients affected by pollen allergy should be alerted to the danger of being outdoors during a thunderstorm in the pollen season, as such events may be an important cause of severe exacerbations of asthma and other allergic respiratory diseases. In the light of these observations, it is useful to predict thunderstorms and thus minimize thunderstorm-related events.

- D'Amato G, et al. Outdoor air pollution, climatic changes and allergic bronchial asthma. Eur Respir J. 2002 Sep;20(3):763-76. I.F:8.3 185 citations. components (biological and chemical) of this interaction Urbanization and high levels of vehicle emissions are correlated to an increase in the frequency of polleni nduced respiratory allergy prevalent in people who live in urban areas compared with those who live in rural areas. Measures of mitigation need to be applied for reducing future impacts of climate change on our planet, but until global emissions continue to rise, adaptation to the impacts of future climate variability will also be required.

- D'Amato G, et al Thunderstorm-related asthma: not only grass pollen and spores.. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008 Feb;121(2):537-8; I.F:12.48 40 citations In this manuscript there is the scientific description of mechanisms and trigger factors involved in epidemics of thunderstorm and respiratory allergy and asthma.

- D'Amato, G, Holgate, S.T, et al (2015). Meteorological conditions, climate change, new emerging factors, and asthma and related allergic disorders. A statement of the World Allergy Organization. The World Allergy Organization Journal : 1939-4551, doi: 10.1186/s40413-015-0073-0 I.F:1.4 23 citations This statement of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) raises the importance of this health hazard and highlights the facts on climate-related health impacts, including: deaths and acute morbidity due to heat waves and extreme meteorological events; increased frequency of acute cardio-respiratory events due to higher concentrations of ground level O3; changes in the frequency of respiratory diseases due to trans-boundary particle pollution; altered spatial and temporal distribution of allergens (pollens, molds, and mites); and some infectious disease vectors.

- D'Amato G, et al Climate change, air pollution and extreme events leading to increasing prevalence of allergic respiratory diseases. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, vol. 8, ISSN: 1828-695X 2013- 43 citations. In this manuscript are focalized the trigger meteorological events able to induce deterioration of obstructive respiratory diseases. - Lorenzo Cecchi, D’Amato G et al.Projections of the effects of climate change on Allergic asthma:The contribution of Aerobiology. Allergy. 2010 Sep;65(9):1073-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2010.02423. I.F:6.3 87 citations This manuscript is the result of a work of EAACI-ERS Task Force on “Effects of Climate change on respiratory allergic diseases and on asthma prevalence”.

- D'Amato G, Cecchi L, Annesi-Maesano I. A trans-disciplinary overview of case reports of thunderstorm-related asthma outbreaks and relapse. Eur Respir Rev. 2012 Jun 1;21(124):82-7. doi: 10.1183/09059180.00001712. 15 citations. In this manuscript there is an update of clinical cases of asthma attacks related to thunderstorm in allergic subjects and a case of relapse of near fatal asthma in a woman (the last asthma attack when she was pregnant).

- D'Amato G, et al.Thunderstorm-related asthma attacks. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2017 Jun;139(6):1786-1787. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.03.003. Epub 2017 Mar 23.