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Areas of Expertise
Benign haematology. Thalassemia. Sickle cell anaemia. Aplastic anaemia. Myeloproliferative neoplasia. Lymphoma. Multiple myeloma. Leukaemia. Transfusion medicine.
About
Education & Experience
Prof. Andrea Piccin is a Consultant Haematologist at Mater Private Network, Dublin.
Prof. Piccin graduated from Padova University, Italy in 1996. In 2002 he completed higher specialist training in Haematology at the University of Verona, Italy. In 2002 he moved to Ireland, where he worked in the Haematology departments of several Irish hospitals including Crumlin Children’s Hospital, St James’s Hospital, and Tallaght University Hospital, and the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. From 2009 to 2018 he worked as Consultant Haematologist in a high dependency Haematology Unit for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in Bolzano in Northern Italy. In 2018 he returned to Ireland and worked in the Department of Haematology at Crumlin Children’s Hospital, Cork University Hospital, and in the Blood Transfusion Service in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2024 he joined the Haematology Department at Mater Private Network in Dublin.
Prof. Piccin has a wide range of clinical experience in the treatment of malignant conditions such as acute leukaemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, including allogeneic- and autologous-bone marrow transplantation. He also has significant experience in the treatment of benign haematology including sickle cell anaemia (SCA) and haemoglobinopathies. He is a very patient focused clinician, and also has extensive academic experience that includes obtaining two professorships (Austria and Italy). He is the author of multiple research articles.
Academic awards
Prof. Piccin completed an MD thesis on gene therapy in Pediatric Cancer (1996) followed by a second MD thesis on tandem bone marrow transplant in Multiple Myeloma (2018). In 2009 he was awarded a PhD Diploma from Trinity College Dublin, with a thesis on Sickle Cell Anaemia Pathophysiology. In 2018 he was awarded a professorship in Haematology, Oncology and Internal Medicine at the University of Innsbruck in Austria after producing a PhD thesis on the pathophysiology of thrombo-haemorragic events in myeloproliferative neoplasia. In 2018 he was awarded a professorship in Haematology in Italy.
Honours
Prof. Andrea Piccin was awarded the title of Sir “Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana” and Medal of Solidarity by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, in Rome, Italy, in May 2007. Subsequently, he was also awarded with the Medal of Merit, by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in Rome, Italy, in June 2017.
Special Interests
Prof. Andrea Piccin has a particular interest in myeloproliferative neoplasia, haemoglobinopathies, aplastic anaemia multiple myeloma, lymphoma and leukaemia.
Clinical Research & Professional Memberships
Prof. Andrea Piccin is an internationally recognized author of numerous publications in Haematology. He has published on different Haematology topics such as: haemoglobinopathies, blood transfusion, myeloproliferative neoplasia, lymphomas and leukaemia.
His research achievements include a H-INDEX score of 28 and i-10 INDEX: 51, with a total of 3,700 citations. He has 97 peer reviewed publications, of which 54 publications are as 1st author. He has also published 50 abstracts, 10 textbook translations and 38 posters, and delivered 59 oral presentations at international meetings.
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