Dr. giovanni gualniera

As Senior Product Manager of the Platform & Technology Dept, I’m responsible for the identification of new requirements about the Platform line and integration with third party entities, following the development of the products in all its stages until the commercial availability.

Ebit Aet, IT Business Unit of Esaote S.p.A. March 2008 – February 2014 . Responsible for the identification of new requirements about the whole Cardiologic Line (Ultrasound, ECG, Cath-Lab, Cardio Surgery, EP-Lab, National and International e-CRF) of development for the products in all its stages until the commercial availability. July 2006 – March 2008 . During this period, as service and project engineer, I had the responsibility of all I.T. Cath-lab installations of the domestic country (CIS/PACS).

Covering different roles: first two years as Project Manager and Software Developer I had the possibility to collaborate in the design and CE marking of a dedicated EEG device able to work into the MR environment for concurrent acquisition with EPI sequences; next years: as Product Planning Manager I was responsible for the product lines of Standard Evoked and Event Related Potentials Systems, Electromyographic Systems, MR-Compatible EEG Systems in all its phases until the commercial availability.

Dedicated elaboration of hemodynamic parameters and correction algorithms in Permeability and Perfusion MR sequences in order to study the alteration of the Blood Brain Barrier in patients with Multiple Sclerosis Disease.

I developed in collaboration with EBNeuro S.p.A and Univ. of Genoa, a dedicated MR compatible EEG recording System able to perform simultaneous recording during functional MRI acquisitions, with the additional design of a Software Real Time Artifact Removing Algorithm to clean EEG traces.

I had the possibility to develop in collaboration with the C.N.R. of Pisa and L.I.R.A. Lab of Univ. of Genoa a dedicated system for the Acquisition and Elaboration of Visual Evoked Potentials