Rate My Professor Mauro Vaccarezza

Dr. Mauro Vaccarezza is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin Medical School in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, a role he assumed in January 2021. He also holds the position of Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University since January 2018 and serves as a Full Professor appointed by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca in Rome, Italy, since April 2017. Vaccarezza graduated with honors in Medicine (M.D.) from the University of Genoa Medical School in July 1991, obtained a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Early in his career, he was a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His teaching portfolio includes anatomy and physiology courses such as HUMB1001 Integrated Systems Anatomy and Physiology, and he holds an anatomy teaching licence.

Vaccarezza's academic interests center on anatomy education, leveraging technologies like 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality for undergraduate human anatomy teaching; immunology and neuroimmunology, including natural killer cells and multiple sclerosis; cardiovascular research encompassing atherosclerosis as an inflammatory disease, nitric oxide production, microvascular hypoxia, and trimethylamine N-oxide; paleopathology and historical epidemiology of diseases like tuberculosis and ancient epidemics; exercise physiology and its role in cancer immunotherapy and redox balance; and evolutionary anatomy such as the circulus arteriosus cerebri and mental eminence. He has produced over 162 peer-reviewed publications, garnering more than 6,162 citations. Key publications include '3D-Printed specimens as a valuable tool in anatomy education' (2018), 'One year of anatomy teaching and learning in the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic: A global survey of anatomical educators' (2021), 'Augmented reality for teaching undergraduate human anatomy: An educators' perspective' (2026), 'Atherosclerosis as an inflammatory disease: Doubts? No more' (2018), 'The Evolution of Diagnostic Techniques in the Paleopathology of Tuberculosis: A Scoping Review' (2023), and 'Microvascular hypoxia and inflammation in chronic pain syndromes' (2025). As Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology, Vaccarezza fosters interdisciplinary collaborations across global institutions, significantly influencing anatomical sciences education, medical history, and translational health research.