Dr Romanelli is currently president-elect of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies and will organize, in Florence, Italy 2016 the 5th World Congress of WUWHS, http://www.wuwhs2016.com/. He is also a board member of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP). At national and international levels, Dr Romanelli has served as member and chair of multiple grant review panels and on the editorial advisory boards of multiple journals.

Dr Romanelli has extensive clinical experience of managing patients with leg ulceration. He is responsible for the Wound Healing Research Unit inside the Santa Chiara Hospital at the University of Pisa. In 2006 he coordinated the European Pressure Ulcers prevalence project in Italy, which has put together data from over 25 national hospitals.

Dr Romanelli’s research activities include the development of biomaterials to be used on acute and chronic wounds, the implementation of different scaffolds for tissue engineering, and the elaboration of a prototype to noninvasively assess acute and chronic wounds.