Luigi Starace

LUIGI STARACE Media consultant for medical information Journalist Director of IJPC In 2009 Luigi created this emoticon: @:-) smiley mind (wikipedia) a positive icon for mental health Luigi Starace is a science journalist member of the Albo Giornalisti Pubblicisti Pugliesi and a media consultant for the medical communication in the visual and new media. He is close to become a medical doctor. Luigi’s national credits include the journalistic direction of the IJPC (Italian Journal of Primary Care), a peer-reviewed medical journal, and Medicina di Famiglia, a medical journal dedicated to primary care professionals. Luigi’s national credits on web information include the collaboration with the two most important italian on line journal specialized on psychic items: POL-it (Psychiatry on line-Italy) and Psychomedia. Luigi is also a staff member of the italian web portal: Osservatorio Psicologia nei Media (Media Psychology Observatory). On his own Luigi created in 2005 an on line portal called “Stigmamente, Arte Media and Psichaitria sullo Stigma e la Diversità” (Stigmamente, Art Media and Psychiatry about Stigma and Diversity) dedicated to the social stigmatization processes of mental illness and more in general diversity items. Stigmamente has two academic sponsorship from Bari’s and Foggia’s University (Faculty of Medicine: Psychiatry). The Media Consultant activity has been focused on a primary programme of prevention on psychological diseases since 2005. Together with Foggia’s Public Library, University and Provincia Luigi created and coordinated from 2005 to 2008 many cultural boxes mixing cinema, science information and art, including the Foggia Film Festival section focused permanently on mental illness. Luigi’s edutainment video production are the “videoblob” 2005 - “Medicina Mon Amour” (Medicine Mon Amour), video about the figure of the doctor in cinema’s representations; 2006 - “Mens Stana in corpore divana”, video about the medical-patient communication; 2007 - DSMabout, videoblob, sponsored by Runtimes for Ely Lilly, about the DSM IV classification of Schizophrenia; 2008 - Pensiero Stupendo, video about the comic and criminalizing stigmatization of the mental person seen throught one hundred years of cinema. Luigi Starace’s Specialties: Psychiatry, Social Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, Social Advertising, Visual Arts and Media, Social Networks and Photography. PERSONAL INFORMATION Date and place of birth 23 February 1974, Manfredonia, Italy Nati