ROME (ITALPRESS) – The Ordinary Elective Assembly of the Italian Medical Sports Federation confirmed Maurizio Casasco as president today in Rome with 98 percent of the preferences expressed by secret ballot by the 100 delegates present out of 101 eligible to vote. Casasco, also president of the European Federation (EFSMA) and member of the board of the World Federation (FIMS), saw his programmatic report for the four-year period 2025 2028 approved with a long standing ovation by the Assembly, in which it is stressed that it is necessary to “increasingly enhance FMSI, the only scientific society of Sports Medicine recognized in Italy by the Ministry of Health, as a reality of excellence in response to the needs of the community and institutions.” On the strength of the recognition at the EU level of the specialty in Sports Medicine under his presidency, Casasco recalled the importance of continuing to strengthen the issues on which FMSI has distinguished itself in recent years, starting with the role of specialists in Sports Medicine in society in preventing and combating noncommunicable diseases, which kill 41 million people each year, accounting for 74 percent of all deaths globally, as already highlighted in his UN hearing. And then, the broadening of the scope of intervention of the Sports Medicine specialist in the world of work through primary and secondary prevention programs based on exercise as an essential and cost-beneficial medical tool, to further affirm the federal theme of “biological age, registry age” in the various contexts of productivity, insurance and retirement age; the prescription of exercise in the right dose, on a par with a drug, for the improvement of people’s health status and quality of life and, consequently, for savings by the National Health System: a theme that belongs to FMSI’s know-how, all the more so because it was precisely in Italy that the postgraduate university school of Sports Medicine was born, first in the world in 1957; the fight against doping, thanks also to a new Antidoping Laboratory in Rome, already a globally recognized excellence, the only one in Italy accredited by the World Antidoping Agency (WADA), out of only 30 laboratories currently active in the world, and now further strengthened with an investment of 18 million euros allocated in the last budget law. In his speech, President Casasco also noted how crucial it is, in the next four years, to “invest in a renewed training and research project through a process of exchange and dissemination of knowledge at the international level.” And he also highlighted the importance of investing in young people: “I’m thinking,” Casasco said, “of a sort of Erasmus project of Sports Medicine in Europe, to the development of which my role as EFSMA president can undoubtedly contribute,” as well as the consolidation of relations with trainees and specialization schools.- Photo Fmsi Press Office -(ITALPRESS)
