Marika D'Oria

• PhD in Education and Communication
• Senior Research Advisor at Ospedale Isola Tiberina - Gemelli Isola

Opinion Letter

This chapter presents a phenomenological exploration of the ontological aspects that define us as “humans”, drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives in the age of Artificial Intelligence (mainly conversational agents such as chatbots) and mixed reality (e.g., the Metaverse). This reflection is grounded in the concept of “humanistic” care within...

Background: Advances in the treatment of gynecological cancer have led to improvements in survival but also an increase in menopausal symptoms, especially in young women with premature iatrogenic menopause. Methods: A narrative review was performed to clarify the possibility of prescribing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after hormone-dependen...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other statistical methods are providing new opportunities of data modelling for patient benefit. The number of studies on AI-driven predictions is increasingly growing, since hundreds of models have been developed for similar targeted populations and outcomes. Predictive models are used and tested in a wide range of...

Starting from the recent issues elucidated by the European Parliament, the following contribution focuses on how algorithms are perceived by society as characterized by a “personhood” that may convey prejudice and how, conversely, the metaverse can influence human behavior by leading to interesting changes in identity. A deeper reflection explores...

AI-guided machines can improve safety within areas where “human variables” can lead to “human errors,” such as medicine. Surgical interventions require high precision, and tele-robotic surgery may help augment human capabilities in order to achieve it. The chapter focuses on understanding the possible degrees of coordination between humans and (int...

Modern surgery is a highly effective sociotechnical process susceptible to errors. Surgical data science is a novel transdisciplinary research field aiming at improving surgical care using advanced data analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI). This chapter presents several applications of AI tools in perioperative and postoperative surgery t...

The article explores the use of the “ChatGPT” artificial intelligence language model in the Human Sciences field. ChatGPT uses natural language processing techniques to imitate human language and engage in artificial conversations. While the platform has gained attention from the scientific community, opinions on its usage are divided. The article...

The labor market is constantly changing. Mastering the art of transforming oneself in a changing labor market is an invitation to embrace change, while learning and integrating certain practices of meditation and transformative pedagogy. This allows us to live with self-confidence during an era of great uncertainty and fluid professions. Be the...

Background: Several implant-based remote monitoring strategies are currently tested to optimize heart failure (HF) management by anticipating clinical decompensation and preventing hospitalization. Among these solutions, the modern implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices have been equipped with sensors...

Introduction New digital technologies can become a tool for welcoming the patient through the artistic dimension. Cancer patients, in particular, need support that accompanies and supports them throughout their treatment. Materials and Methods The Art4ART project consist in the structural proposal to cancer patients of a web-based digital platform...

Personalized medicine (PM) bridges several disciplines for understanding and addressing prevalent, complex, or rare situations in human health (e.g., complex phenotyping, risk stratification, etc.); therefore, digital and technological solutions have been integrated in the field to boost innovation and new knowledge generation. The open innovation...

La trasmissione formale del sapere medico può essere pensata classicamente in due modalità: da una parte abbiamo il medico (o docente) che insegna allo specializzando (o studente) e dall’altra abbiamo il medico che trasmette il suo sapere al paziente per guidarlo nelle scelte terapeutiche ed educarlo ad uno stile di vita più rispettoso della sua sa...

Modern medicine is pursuing a Personalized Precision Medicine approach, aimed at providing ‘the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time’, to analyze a heterogeneous ecosystem of variables concerning the disease and the person. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-guided Robotics play a promising role in diagnostics and therapeutics....

Gynecological cancers require complex intervention since patients have specific needs to be addressed. Centralization to high-volume centers improves the oncological outcomes of patients with gynecological cancers. Research in gynecological oncology is increasing thanks to modern technologies, from the comprehensive molecular characterization of tu...

Il volume si colloca nel panorama scientifico e culturale attuale in qualità di una riflessione interdisciplinare su come la persona possa avvicinarsi alla medicina in modo integrato e nelle varie situazioni esistenziali, tenendo conto di tutte le variabili che, a vario titolo, riguardano il mantenimento dello stato di salute del soggetto e della c...

In Anelli F., Cesario A., D'Oria M., Giuliodori C., Scambia G. (Eds.)

In Anelli F., Cesario A., D'Oria M., Giuliodori C., Scambia G. (Eds.)

Obesity is a chronic, relapsing disease representing a major global health problem in the 21st century. Several etiologic factors are involved in its pathogenesis, including a Western hypercaloric diet, sedentariness, metabolic imbalances, genetics, and gut microbiota modification. Lifestyle modifications and drugs often fail to obtain an adequate...

The recent pandemic led the educative world to radically rethink the teaching setting. The goal of this article is to analyze an embodied simulation strategy (the Walt Disney method) as an experiential technique of dramatization in media distance learning contexts. The eco-mindstorming approach is presented, included in the embodied cognition frame...

Personalized Medicine (PM) is an evolving and often missinterpreted concept and no agreement of personalization exist. We examined the PM discourse towards foucauldian archeological and genealogical analysis to understand the meaning of “personalization” in medicine. In the archaeological analysis, the historical evolution is characterized by the c...

Traditional healthcare paradigms rely on the disease-centered approach aiming at reducing human nature by discovering specific drivers and biomarkers that cause the advent and progression of diseases. This reductive approach is not always suitable to understand and manage complex conditions, such as multimorbidity and cancer. Multimorbidity require...

Personalized Medicine (PM) has shifted the traditional top-down approach to medicine based on the identification of single etiological factors to explain diseases, which was not suitable for explaining complex conditions. The concept of PM assumes several interpretations in the literature, with particular regards to Genetic and Genomic Medicine. De...

Clinical trials in cancer treatment are imperative in enhancing patients’ survival and quality of life outcomes. The lack of communication among professionals may produce a non-optimization of patients’ accrual in clinical trials. We developed a specific platform, called “Digital Research Assistant” (DRA), to report real-time every available clinic...

The advent of Precision Medicine has globally revolutionized the approach of translational research suggesting a patient-centric vision with therapeutic choices driven by the identification of specific predictive biomarkers of response to avoid ineffective therapies and reduce adverse effects. The spread of “multi-omics” analysis and the use of sen...

In Anelli F., Cesario A., D'Oria M., Giuliodori C., Scambia G. (Eds)

In Cesario A., D'Oria M., Scambia G. (Eds).

In Cesario A., D'Oria M., Scambia G. (Eds.)

La Medicina Personalizzata è il nuovo orizzonte della sanità che apre scenari innovativi di ricerca e cura senza precedenti. La possibilità di attivare percorsi preventivi, diagnostici e terapeutici calibrati sulle caratteristiche fenotipiche e genotipiche del singolo paziente consente, infatti, di avvicinarsi fedelmente alla sua complessità clinic...

L'obiettivo di questo articolo è di definire la teoria e la pratica dietro il concetto di innovazione in sanità. Partendo dal progresso delle scienze "-omiche" e mostrando le nuove possibilità date dalle moderne tecnologie (es. Big Data, Intelligenza Artificiale, robotica) proveremo a riflettere su cosa, invece, "resiste" al cambiamento, e rapprese...

In Italia, cresce il numero di adolescenti e adulti che si interfacciano ai videogiochi. La letteratura indica vantaggi e limiti che tali strumenti hanno sull’apprendimento dei giocatori, sottolineando che l’esperienza vissuta nei serious game abbia una valenza educativa. Analizzando il modello pedagogico e la struttura narrativa del videogioco “De...

Allied health professionals spend a considerable amount of time listening to and communicating with patients while providing care. The inclusion of appropriate communication skills as a part of the core curriculum for allied health professions is crucial. Metaphorical representations are used by both patients and healthcare providers when communica...

Introduction. Educating healthcare professionals to communication skills is a crucial issue in order to inform patients about the risks for their health, and to share together a safe decision-making (Hamilton & Wen-Ying, 2014). Family Medicine is the field where clinicians and nurses face with a wide-spectrum of pathologies, and are required to kno...

What is a separation in an educative relationship? Which words can describe and redefine the feelings we live, if this relationship is the one between the master and the student? If pedagogy is fulfilled by theories and methods that help teachers and masters to build valuable relationships, less space is given to the student to tell about and to re...

Imparare dai propri maestri è sempre un raro privilegio della vita. Azioni, pensieri, emozioni e progetti si mescolano in un sodalizio che mira a durare nel tempo. Ma cosa succede quando questa relazione finisce? A quali situazioni si va incontro? Se il maestro è un adulto capace che può contare sul proprio modo di sopravvivere, cosa può fare l’all...

In questo articolo viene fatta una riflessione sull'errore come elemento che costituisce la possibilità di entrare in relazione. La si farà partendo da una rilettura pedagogica sull'errore in due raffigurazioni de L'Ultima Cena: quella di Leonardo da Vinci e quella di Pieter Paul Rubens. L'obiettivo è quello di far comprendere come l'errore sia una...

Il saggio introduce il valore artistico delle opere d'arte di Vladimir Kush nella formazione degli adulti, con l'obiettivo di utilizzarli come espedienti utili per generare apprendimenti trasformativi. Attraverso un'analisi della corrente pittorico-filosofica dell'artista (il metarealismo) e proponendo esercizi immaginali per educare lo sguardo del...

This presentation reports a qualitative research. Our goal was to understand how metaphors are consciously used by family physicians, nurses, and administrative assistants of a Primary Care group.

Presentation of our research on how the use of metaphors can enhance or worsen togetherness in Family Medicine.

The aim of this paper is to celebrate the dignity of the work of family physicians, reflecting about their practice through the metaphor of Bauman’s “Liquid modernity”. Considering the European and the Italian context, three possible educative actions will be suggested for adult education in healthcare, to understand and share the natural dynamic c...

This presentation shows how the systemic approach (Bateson, Asen, etc.) changed in Family Medicine. Three "epistemological mistakes" that have been made by previous approaches to family medicine are explained. Three "epistemological solutions" are suggested, to include any possible "therapeutic destiny" in the life of a patient.

2nd Best Research Poster Award Winner - This poster starts from a literature review to show how metaphors may help healthcare professionals to improve their skills in practice.

The aim of this speech is to understand how to collect and use linguistic metaphors in the educative research, starting from a study on this topic in General Practice (GP). The study is based on the hermeneutic phenomenology, and composed by a literature review and an empirical part in progress. Its goal is to recognize the critical issues of metap...

The modern medical education is trying to direct its path towards practices and methodologies that introduce the use of "multimodal metaphors" (narrations, music, cinema, art etc.) to develop and enhance the soft skills of healthcare professionals. However, in health care settings, this vision is not always accepted and there is a strong resistance...

Literature review on the use of metaphors in Family Medicine

Metafore - Uno studio nell’ambito della Medicina Generale