Italy

Dr Roberto Stella –an Italian physician who worked as a general practitioner in Busto Arsizio – succumbed to Covid-19 on 11 March 2020.   He held numerous positions in national medical associations, including serving as president of the Italian Scientific Society for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners and the National Interdisciplinary Medical Society of Primary Care.   Roberto Stella was born in Busto Arsizio on 22 July 1952. Stella earned a doctor of medicine and surgery from University of Milan in 1978. He served in the Alpini and was a volunteer Alpino medic during the 1980 Irpinia earthquake.  Stella specialized in general hematology in Pavia in 1984.   Stella ran a medical clinic in Busto Arsizio. In 2017, Ste...