Giovanni Muscolino receives Stretto di Messina pediatric research award

Giovanni Muscolino, head of the Neonatology Functional Unit at Villa Serena in Palermo, has been awarded the 17th Stretto di Messina pediatric research prize. The award was presented during the 26th National Meeting of Translational Pediatrics.

The recognition highlights Muscolino’s professional contributions and the work of his team in establishing Villa Serena’s neonatology department as a medical center of excellence in Sicily. The unit specializes in care for premature infants, birth pathologies, and intermediate neonatal pathologies.

Marking its tenth year of operation, the unit provides 24-hour care with neonatologists and anesthesiologists on site. It operates with 10 beds for intermediate neonatal pathology and serves infants referred from hospital emergency rooms and private or local pediatricians.