Bologna, 21 May 2022 – It took four years for the laurel for honor in Medicine and Surgery was attributed to the former rector Fabio Roversi-Monaco. The pandemic got in the way but yesterday, in the Aula Magna of Santa Lucia, the parchment was delivered by the rector Giovanni Molari. A classroom that was filled not only with the many academic authorities, even outside the Alma Mater, but with many citizens and students. Last but not least, a beautiful representation of Goliardi who, after receiving his degree, paid tribute to Professor Roversi-Monaco.
After the greetings of the rector Molari who recalled the great commitment of Roversi-Monaco in favor of medicinethe Deans took the floor who, in 2018, presented the proposal for conferring the degree to the Departments of the medical area: professors Luigi BolondiAndrea Stella and Ildebrando Maria Coconut who retraced the process that led to the approval of their proposal, but also the commitment to the enhancement of the Faculty of Medicine, the many ideas that have improved public health services, financing scientific and welfare projects and enriching the instrumental equipment of Sant’Orsola and of the biomedical research institutes, the creation of Medical Science Festival and the promotion of the Bologna Process where the 29 European Ministers of Education, who met in the city in 1999 for the qualitative comparability of the qualifications of the various countries and the free circulation of students and graduates of the European Union. But also the Magna Carta, signed by over 500 rectors from all over the world and the many building works of the University.
It was then the turn of the interventions of the directors and the director of the three Departments who proposed to the University the conferment of the laurel for honor: Lucia Manzolidirector of the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, Pierluigi Avenuedirector of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the University of Bologna and Gianandrea Weather in Pasquinellidirector of the Department of Specialized, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine.
On concluding the reports, he took the floor again on rector Molari that, pronouncing the customary words and remembering the legislation for the conferment of the laurel for honor, handed it over to Professor Roversi-Monaco. The applause from the audience was long and warm. And, as tradition dictates, the new graduate held one master’s lesson.
“I try to catch my breath” were the first words of Professor Roversi-Monaco making it clear that emotion there was and it was not small. He then went on to recall the role of the University of Bologna and the fact “that it stood out in the world since the eleventh century and its pulsating arteries were the arcades”. The lectio continued on the many themes at the center of the professor’s works and reflections: health and illness, especially in the light of recent events, the increase in average life, longevity which is an achievement but cannot become an emergency or a clash between generations. And again the doctor / patient relationship, the help of medical technology and the fundamental importance empathy.
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