Maria Pia Villa, MD

Professor of Pediatrics


From March 2005 to present Maria holds the post of Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University of Rome “Sapienza” at the Hospital Santi Andrea.

Education & Training


Since March 2005 Maria holds the position of Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology
at the University of Rome “Sapienza” at the Hospital Santi Andrea.


She enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bologna in the academic year 1968-69
where she graduated in Medicine in 1975


In November 1975 she enrolled in the school of specialties in Pediatrics at the
University of Bologna, where she graduated in 1978


In 1983 she was admitted to the school of specialties in Physiology and respiratory diseases at the
University of Bologna where she graduated in June 1988. From 1991 she was appointed researcher

Career and Securities


Maria Pia Villa was named professor for teaching Pediatrics and performed such teaching for the academic years
1977/78, 1978/79, 1979/80, in the school of nursing in “Santa Maria della Vita” at the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna


Since 1991 to the present she actively participates in the Commissions examination for the Bachelor course of
Medicine and Surgery of the Pediatric Clinic at the Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”


She has been a professor of Pediatric Pneumology at the School of the Italian Red Cross, nellanno 1997


In the academic year 1993-94 she was appointed professor of “Semiotics Clinic” at the II School
in Paediatric Clinic, until the academic year 1998-99 when she was appointed professor of
Pediatric Bronchopneumology at the same school. A mandate she still holds


She was Professor of Pediatrics, from the academic year 1998-99, at the School of Specialization in Otolaryngology


Professor of Auxologia in 1998-99 at the School of Specialization in Sports Medicine


Professor of Pediatrics from 1998 to 2003 in Infant Respiratory Physiology at the II
Chair of Pediatrics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”


Lecturer, Pediatrician from 1998 to 2003 in the Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’


Professor in the graduate course in medicine laboratory at the Institute of Paediatric Clinic from 1998 to 2003


Lecturer of Pediatrician from 2003 to date for the Degree in Medicine and Surgery II at the Faculty of Medicine
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ – St. Andrew


Since November 2002, Professor of Pediatrics in Physiotherapy at the II Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’


She has followed and graduate students in the writing of dissertations and specialization in the degree
course in Medicine and Surgery, and in graduate school in the Pediatric Clinic


Since November 2003 she has been Director of the School of Specialization in Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
and Psychology, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. She is also president for the course in Nursing as well
as the course in Nursing Pediatric for the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”


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