Since 2000 is the President of the Lega Italiana per la Lotta ai Tumori (Italian League Against Cancer).
Elected several times councilor to the Order of Doctors of Bari, Schittulli was also a national councilor of the Italian Society of Surgical Oncology and director of the Special School of Surgical Breast of Italian Hospital Surgeons Association.
On 7 June 2009 Schittulli, supported by the centre-right coalition, was elected President of the Province of Bari with 50.05% of the vote.
[2] Schittulli was candidate for president in the 2015 Apulian regional election, but after the political breaking between Raffaele Fitto and Silvio Berlusconi he was supported by only a part of the centre-right coalition (Schittulli Political Movement−Popular Area, Over with Fitto and Brothers of Italy), while Forza Italia supported the candidacy of Adriana Poli Bortone.
[3] Finally, Schittulli finished third, obtaining 18.29% of the vote, behind Michele Emiliano (PD) and Antonella Laricchia (M5S), but surpassing the other centre-right candidate, Adriana Poli Bortone.