Salutation: Dr First Name Claudio Last Name Dario Job title General Director Organization: Azienda ULSS 9 TREVISO Tel. +39 0422 323218 Mail [email protected] Claudio Dario: Born in Conegliano Veneto in 1957, he graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery in 1983. He specialised in Cardiology and in Health and Preventive Medicine. From 1995 to 2002 he has been the medical Executive of the hospital of Treviso and the responsible for the Legal Medicine Unit at the same hospital. He has a contract as professor of Communication Technologies at the School of Specialisation in Health and Preventive Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Padoa. In 2002 he becomes Sanitary Director of the Healthcare Unit No. 16 of Padua. Soon after becomes designated as the General Director of the Healthcare Unit No. 9 of Treviso in 2003. Since April 2002, he has been designated as the person in charge of the Telemedicine projects for the Veneto Region and as the coordinator for the project “Telemedicine survey in Veneto Region and identification of guidelines for future development”. Dr Dario has been involved in for the past 10 years in different IT projects from is theoretical presentation to its actual realization, always aiming to improve the clinical sanitary services to the general public. In this regards he is the founder and the President of the Italian Association for the Improvement of the Health-care Quality (AmiQA). Active member in several scientific committees, for international advanced research IT projects: scientific responsible for the Project ESCAPE, accountable for the technical responsibility for the e-government TeleMed ESCAPE project and for the HEALTH OPTIMUM project and RENEWING HEALTH project, approved by the European Commission. Italian Representative of ESA teleMED Working Group, scientific committee for ESA Programme: Opportunities and Challenges of eHealth and Telemedicine via satellite, a programme which has been approved by Ministers of Member states. On October 13, 2005 he was elected President of the Consortium Arsenàl.IT - Veneto Centre Research and Innovation for Digital Health, representative of all the Veneto Healthcare structures" On 27 December 2007 he received the honor of “Commendatore dellʼordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic On May 2008 he won the Starring Prize for Innovation on Health. Premium delivered by the Minister for Reforms and Public Administration.