Rocco Jemma

Rocco Jemma
Born	(1866-08-16)August 16, 1866 Laureana di Borrello, Calabria
Died	March 24, 1949(1949-03-24) (aged 82) Naples
Nationality	Italian
Scientific career
Fields	medicine
Institutions	University of Genoa

Rocco Jemma (1866–1949) was an Italian pediatrician.

Biography

In 1893 he became Director of Pediatric Clinic in Palermo. He hold this position until 1914 when he left it to his pupil Giovanni Di Cristina and got the same role in Naples. His studies focused mainly on the infectious (confirmation of the etiology of the leishmaniasis parasite, vaccine therapy of typhoid, paratyphoid, melitense infection) and nutrition (infant nutrition disorders). In 1929 new Pediatric Clinic in Naples was inaugurated under his direction.

Bibliography

• Italo Farnetani, Rocco Jemma il più grande pediatra italiano, Cogral, Limbadi (VV) 2006, pp. 74.
• Italo Farnetani, Storia della pediatria italiana, Società Italiana di Pediatria, Genova, 2008, pp. 72–73, 76, 80-81. ISBN 978-88-905768-0-5
• Giuseppe Caronia, "Rocco Jemma (1866 - 1949) in <<LA PEDIATRIA>>. Estratto. Anno LVII. 1949.

External links

• (in Italian) Biography
• Italo Farnetani, Jemma, Roccoo, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana; 2004. Vol. 62, pp. 193 -196. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/rocco-jemma_(Dizionario-Biografico)/