Prof Icro Maremmani is Professor of Drug Addiction Medicine at the School of Psychiatry of the University of Pisa, Italy. He graduated from the University of Pisa, Italy in 1979, and specialized in Psychiatry, taking his second degree cum laude, in 1983. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Department of Psychiatry, at the Santa Chiara Hospital of the University of Pisa, Italy. He has been President of the European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association (EUROPAD) since its foundation in Geneva in 1995. As President of EUROPAD he has organized international symposia in the USA, during the Conferences of the American Association for the Treatment of Opiate
Dependence (AATOD), and Conferences in several European cities (Saint-Tropez, 1995; Ljubljana, 1997; Arezzo 2000; Oslo 2002; Paris, 2004; Bratislava, 2006; Sofia, 2008; Zagabria, 2010; Barcelona, 2012). In 1990 (Cagliari, Italy) he became a founding member of the Società Italiana Tossicodipendenze (Italian Society of Addiction Medicine).

He is also a founder member (2007) and current President (since2011) of the World Federation for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (WFTOD), an NGO with Special Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). He received the Dole-Nyswander Award in Washington (DC) in 1994 as the first non-American winner of that award, and in 2004 received the “Chimera Award”, in Paris. He is author of the chapters on Drug Abuse and Aggression in the second edition of the Trattato Italiano di Psichiatria. To date he has several hundred scientific publications and has given over 400 scientific presentations. He is Editor of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems, the official journal of EUROPAD and WFTOD, and of Aggiornamenti in Psichiatria, as well as an editorial board member of the Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions, the Italian Journal on Addictions, and Addictive Disorders and their Treatment