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Vincenzo Tota (born inFlorence, Italy) is a medical doctor specializing in sports medicine. He received his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1990 fromUniversity of Siena, inSiena, Italy. For most of the past two decades, Tota has managed the medical care of numerous race car teams, including fitness training and nutrition for race drivers, inFormula One,off-road andsports car racing. A former off-road andoffshore powerboat racer himself, Tota understands the physical toll of sports competition.
Vincenzo Tota furthered his medical career with a specialization in Sport Medicine Traumatology at the Instituto de Clinica Ortopedica inFlorence, Italy in 1994. He attended as an orthopaedic doctor at The Hospital inWinchester, England and Mount Sinai Hospital inToronto, Ontario, Canada in 1991–1993. He also received a Master in Space Medicine Operations through the flight clinic and mission control for Aircraft Medical Operations atLyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas) andJohn F. Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, Florida). He completed his Master in Sports Psychology at Siena University in 1999. He got his Osteopathic Medicine degree at the ICOM university in Milan in 2012.
In addition to his work as a team doctor in sports, he is daily involved in Motorsport Medicine, Vincenzo has also been a teacher at various venues including: Teacher at the Siena Olympic Committee of Sports Medicine and First Aid Techniques for physical trainers; Teacher at both the Gaeta and Formia Military bases in Italy, teaching medicine and psychology applied to drivers of “vedette velocissime” (high velocity patrolling motorboats) used in the fight against clandestine immigration; and Teacher to MDs and PhDs in Master in Sports Psychology at Siena University.
As a racer, Vincenzo won the prestigiousCamel TrophyMadagascar in 1987[1] in aRange Rover and competed in numerous off-road championship series. Additionally, he competed and won the European Offshore Championship in 1999, having been victorious in all races, and three World Endurance Offshore Championships in 2000-2002 as the World-European-Italian Champion. In 2016 he set the world speed record from Monaco (MC) to Venice (IT) in a single leg with the time of 32h46min in the up to 9 meters class powerboat.
Tota speaks his native Italian, and is fluent in English, as well as having a basic knowledge of Spanish and French. The doctor has won several awards including the Gold medal of “Concistoro del Mangia” Siena and Premio “Città di Siena”, both in 1987, and became aPaul Harris Fellow ofRotary International in 1988. He resides inLondon, UK, and travels worldwide.