Born in Rottofreno (Piacenza), Italy, on February 10th 1938. MD degree from the University of Parma Medical School on 7-7-1962. Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Torino, Medical School, from 1962 to 1969. ECFMG passed in 1965. Specialist in Radioisotopes from CNEN in 1965. Research grant for the USA awarded in 1969 by CNR. Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and Moffit Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, in San Francisco, California, from 1969 to June 1971. Assistant in Medicine (faculty position) at the same Institution from July 1st 1971 to June 30th 1973. Intern and Resident in Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, the Bexar County Hospital and the Audy Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, from January 1st, 1974 to December 31st, 1974. California Licence to practice Medicine in 1978.
Assistant Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy), Medical School, in the Department of Internal Medicine, from 1975 to 1980. Professor of Medicine at the same Institution from 1980 through 1989, where he was head of the training program in Nephrology from 82 to 89, of Gastroenterology from 86 to 89, of Cardiology from 88 to 89.
Chair of Internal Medicine, and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and of the training program in Internal Medicine at the University of Udine, Medical School, from 1989 to 1999, and from 1999 onward at the University "Amedeo Avogadro" of Novara, Italy.
Professor Bartoli is author of 513 publications, 297 of which are published in the English literature and in prestigious medical journals. He worked on experimental medicine in animals, studying the mechanism of glomerulo-tubular balance with techniques of renal micropuncture, and the mechanisms of glomerular hemodynamics during intravital videomicroscopy. Other fields of interest are in nephrology, renal physiology, pathophysiology, kidney and liver diseases, electrolyte and acid-base derangements.