Federico Germini is a clinical scientist, specialist in emergency medicine and thrombosis medicine. He started his training at the University of Perugia. He worked as a clinician and researcher at the Policlinico of Milan while completing a PhD program in clinical and experimental medicine at the University of Milan. He then moved to McMaster University in Hamilton (CA), the birthplace of evidence-based medicine, where he completed a fellowship in adult thrombosis medicine and earned both an MSc and a PhD in Health Research Methodology, and served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine.

Federico is currently an Assistant Professor at Humanitas University and a part-time assistant professor at McMaster University. He is affiliated with the Clinical Epidemiology and Research Centre (CERC), the Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorders Centre, and the Emergency Medicine Unit. Federico’s research interests include the use of routinely collected data, clinical trials, patient reported outcomes, systematic reviews, and guidelines. His clinical research interests include venous thromboembolism and hemophilia. Federico is Co-Director of the American College of Physicians (ACP) Center for Evidence Review at Humanitas and Co-Lead of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluations (GRADE) working group on rare diseases.
His research has been supported by the Canadian Venous Thromboembolism Research Network (CanVECTOR), the American College of Physicians, the International Network of Venous Thromboembolism Clinical Research Networks (INVENT) the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), the Physicians’ Services Incorporated (PSI) Foundation, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), McMaster University, and Hamilton Health Sciences.

Federico Germini welcomes enquiries from prospective MSc and PhD students, medical trainees, and research fellows interested in supervised research projects.