Orazio Schillaci

Minister of Health

Prof. Orazio Schillaci, a 56-year-old physician and Rector of the University of Tor Vergata since 2019, is the Minister of Health in the government led by the Hon. Giorgia Meloni.

He is a full professor of Nuclear Medicine and previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the same university. In 2020, he was appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità).

Prof. Schillaci has held positions in numerous scientific organizations and is the author of over 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. He was sworn in before the President of the Republic on October 22, 2022.