Dr. Michela Osti

Specialist in Psychiatry

Freelance contract as a psychiatrist at

Teaching activity at the “Training course for First Aid team workers” (art. 15 Legislative Decree 626/94) DSM Ferrara from 22/12/2003 to 20/02/2004

Fixed-term position at DSM “Veneto Orientale” headquarters in Portogruaro (VE) from 03/29/2004 to 05/29/2004

Fixed-term position at ULSS 8 Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment Service as department referent doctor in Montebelluna (TV) from 05/30/2004 to 02/9/2006

Permanent position at UOS CSM Azzano Decimo (PN) ASS 6 Western Friuli from 03/06/2006 to 07/31/2007

Permanent assignment, for voluntary mobility, at the AUSL of Romagna with operational headquarters in the acute department, Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment Service and Pathological Addictions from August 2007 to November 2011

Fixed-term position, for voluntary mobility, at ULSS 6 Padua with headquarters at the Piovese Mental Health Center from 1/12/2010 to 8/05/2019.

Permanent assignment, for voluntary mobility, at the Mental Health Center of Ravenna DSM and Pathological Addictions AUSL Romagna from 9/05/2019 to 23/12/2022 for voluntary resignation.

Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Ferrara

Qualified to practice in the first session of the year 2000 at the University of Ferrara with registration in the Register of Surgeons of Rovigo. 2000

Specialization in Psychiatry at the University of Ferrara

Master “Adolescents in crisis” organized by the A. “Minotauro” Institute of Analysis of Affective Codes with Prof. G. P. Charmet

Level I and II EMDR course taught by Dr. Isabel Fernandez

Biancosino B, Barbui C, Pera V.; Osti M., Rocchi D. Marmai L., Grassi L.: “Patients’opinions on the benefits of treatment programs in residential psychiatric care”. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2004; 49 (9): 613-620.

Osti M., Osti F., Osti E., “Communication processes in the D.E.A” in Proceedings of the VII refresher course “Jesolo Emergenza 2004, 23-24/04/2004 at Jesolo (VE)

EMDR Italy member

Training course entitled: “Dr. P. Peruzzi: Training in systemic psychoeducation”, held in Montebelluna (TV) on 16/09/2004; 09/30/2004; 10/14/2004; 28/10/2004; 11/18/2004 (with final exam), ECM 16.

Training course organized by the UL.S.S n° 8 company of Asolo (TV). Title: “Normality, pathology and comorbidity in adolescence” held in Castelfranco Veneto (TV) on: 10/15/2004; 10/29/2004; 11/11/2004; 12/10/2004, for a total of hours 12 (with final exam), ECM 6.

Update seminar organized by the Italian Association for the Fight against Stigma and by Janssen-Cilag. Title: “Mood and cognition in psychopathology: recognizing, evaluating and treating schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder”, held in Padua on 10/22/2004 (with final exam).

Training course organized by the UL.S.S n° 8 company of Asolo (TV). Title: Prof. P. Santonastaso, Dr. A. Favaro: “Integrated approach to eating disorders”, held in Castelfranco Veneto (TV) on 05/11/2004. Duration 10 hours with final exam, ECM 5.

Conference entitled “Updates on antipsychotic therapy”, held in Palermo on 23-24/06/2005 (with final exam).

Update seminar entitled “The evolution of drugs and the evolution of treatments: an interactive web meeting” held in Castelfranco V.to (TV) on 2/05/2005; ECM 5.

Montebelluna (TV), 26 May 2006 “Recent acquisitions on the subject of DB”, ECM 6

7-8-9 June 2006, Genoa, XV SINPF congress Neuropsychopharmacology and medical sciences: continuity between biology and therapy with final exam and ECM 16.

Lisbon, 11-13 October 2006 “The Journey from diagnosis to recovery: a patient-psychiatrist partnership”, ECM 7.

Bormio, 10-13 April 2008, “revention in psychiatry” ECM 19.

Venice, 14-15 December 2007, “Long-term treatment of depression; ECM 7.

Sorrento, 27-29 October 2008, “Depression 2008: what the clinician needs to know”, ECM 12.

11/05/2012-Teolo (PD): “The creativity of the treatment group between necessary change and sustainable change”; ECM 6.

23-25/10/2012 – Padua: “Neuroleptics, anxiolytics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers, indications for use and main side effects”, ECM 8.

14/11/2012 – Padua: “Schizophrenic disorders diagnostic-therapeutic-assistance procedure”, ECM 9.

30/10/2012 to 1/12/2012 – Padua: “From the CSM to the rehabilitation line: the treatment path oriented towards recovery healing.”, ECM 19