Franco Rongioletti completed his classical high school diploma at Liceo G. Mazzini in Genoa in 1976 and earned his degree from the University of Genoa in 1982. He pursued three specializations in Medicine and Surgery: Dermatology and Venereology in 1985, Tropical Dermatology and Leprosy in 1989, both at the University of Genoa, and Pathological Anatomy at the University of Siena in 1994. Franco has extensive international experience as a visiting doctor, having worked at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in the USA under Dr. Daniel J. Santa Cruz in 1996, the University of California, Irvine, with Dr. Ronald J. Barr in 1997, and Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1998 with Dr. Raymond L. Barnhill. He also spent time at the University of Arkansas with Dr. Bruce R. Smoller in 1999. Additionally, he was a visiting professor at the University of Denver in 2000, the University of Miami during several visits from 2001 to 2005, and the University of Virginia in 2002. His more recent roles included visiting professorships at the University of Boston in 2012, the University of Utah in 2013, and the Department of Dermatology in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2014. Franco participated in the XXIII International Seminar at Hospital General de Mexico in 2017 and served as an invited visiting professor at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Louisville in 2018. His most recent appointment was at the Institute of Pathology in Rochester in August 2019, working with Dr. Bruce Smoller.

Since February 1, 2021, Franco Rongioletti has served as a Full Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. From December 29, 2016, to the present, he has been a Full Professor and Director of the Dermatological Clinic at the University of Cagliari, where he also directs the Integrated Teaching of Dermatology/Infectious Diseases in the Medicine and Surgery program and the Specialization School in Dermatology and Venereology. Previously, from 2015 to 2016, he was an Associate Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Dermatological Clinic at the University of Cagliari, and from 2005 to 2015, he was an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Dermatological Clinic at the University of Genoa. Since 2019, he has held a position as a Contract Professor of Dermatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida. Franco began his career as an Assistant and Senior Officer at the University of Genoa’s Dermatological Clinic from 1989 to 2004, and he was a Foreign Assistant Professor at the Dermatological Clinic in Strasbourg, France, in 1984. He served as a Dermatopathology Consultant at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Genoa from 2002 to 2015 and directed the Specialization School in Dermatology and Venereology at the same university from 2008 to 2009. From 2005 to 2015, he taught Dermatology and Dermatopathology in the Integrated Course of Dermatology/Infectious Diseases, while also overseeing the Dermatology curriculum in the Dental School and the Orthopedic Technician Diploma Program. Franco was a member of the Center of Excellence for the Study of Molecular Mechanisms (CEBR) for Clinical Immunology from 2012 to 2015 and participated in exam committees for medical students from 1990 to 2015. He has supervised numerous theses for undergraduate and specialization students in Medicine and Surgery at both the Universities of Genoa and Cagliari. From 1989 to 2015, he organized outpatient clinics for external patients at the University of Genoa’s Dermatological Clinic and provided dermatological consultations for inpatients at IRCSS and the University Hospital of San Martino in Genoa.

Clinical Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Clinicopathological Correlation, Psoriasis, Atopic Dermatitis, Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Clinical Research on Rare (Orphan) Diseases, Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Diseases, Deposit Diseases with a specific focus on Cutaneous Mucinoses, Endocrine-Metabolic Disorders, Connective Tissue Diseases, and Dermato-oncology with particular interest in Surgical Pathology, Melanoma, and Non-Melanocytic Skin Tumors.