Annalisa Malara

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Annalisa Malara
Born1982 (age 42–43)
NationalityItalian
Occupationmedical doctor

Annalisa Malara is an Italian doctor and author. She is an intensivist and anaesthesiologist in Codogno, Italy. She treated the first COVID-19 patient in Italy. She was named "personality of the year" by SkyTg24, a satellite news channel. She has written a book about her work. In October 2020, she was appointed as Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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Life

Malara was born in Cremona in Lombardy, and trained in anaesthesiology and resuscitation and at the University of Pavia. [1] She worked at the Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, and at the Civil Hospital of Vigevano and then at the Ospedale Maggiore in Lodi. [1]

Malara is an intensivist and anaesthesiologist in Codogno, Italy. She tested, diagnosed and treated the first COVID-19 patient in Italy. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [1] [8] On 20 February 2020 Malara was called in to attend a 38 year old male patient who presented with a high fever and pneumonia in both lungs. [2] Malara learned from the patient's wife that he had dined two weeks previously with a colleague who had just returned from China. Malara tested the patient for COVID-19, even though guidelines at the time recommended only testing patients who had been in China themselves. [2] When the test returned a positive result, he became "patient one", the first European COVID-19 patient to have caught the disease in Europe. [2]

Awards

Malara was named "personality of the year" by SkyTg24, a satellite news channel. [1] She has written a book about her work, a memoir covering the months after patient one was diagnosed. [9] In 2020 Malara was awarded a Rosa Camuna by the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana. [5]

In October 2020, she was appointed as Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Annalisa Malara, il personaggio dell'anno di SkyTg24: la dottoressa che il 20 febbraio diagnosticò il primo caso di Covid a Codogno". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "How this Italian doctor found Europe's Patient One and became a national hero". The Globe and Mail. 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  3. ↑ "Annalisa Malara". Casa Editrice Longanesi (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  4. ↑ Pullella, Alex Fraser, Philip (2021-02-20). "Italian doctors remember night that ushered in Europe's first COVID-19 lockdown". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-02-21.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. 1 2 "La Rosa camuna ad Annalisa Malara, l'anestesista che ha scoperto il paziente 1 del coronavirus: "Mi vaccinerò prima possibile"". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  6. ↑ "A pandemic atlas: Italy becomes Europe's viral epicenter". Daily Herald. Associated Press. 2020-12-16. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  7. ↑ Malara, Annalisa. "Diagnosing the first COVID-19 patient in Italy – Codogno, Italy". www.escardio.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  8. ↑ "Covid, scoprì il paziente 1 in Italia: consegnato il premio Rosa Camuna ad Annalisa Malara". Il Giorno (in Italian). Milano. 21 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  9. ↑ Malara, Annalisa (2020). In scienza e coscienza : cos'è successo davvero nei mesi che hanno cambiato il mondo. Milano. ISBN   978-88-304-5635-8. OCLC   1228121277.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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