Dr. Irene Mignini is an academic researcher at the CEMAD Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of Rome in Rome, Italy. Dr. Irene Mignini’s research interests include inflammatory bowel disease, gut microbiota, colorectal cancer, liver
metastasis and ulcerative colitis.
Dr. Fabrizio Termite is an academic researcher at the CEMAD Digestive Diseases Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy. Dr. Fabrizio Termite’s research interests include gut microbiota, colorectal cancer, liver metastasis, the gut–liver axis, inflammatory bowel diseases, extracellular vesicles and novel therapeutic agents.
Dr. Giorgio Esposto is an academic researcher at the CEMAD Digestive Disease Center, Fondazione
Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of Rome in Rome, Italy. Dr. Giorgio Esposto’s research interests include hepatocellular carcinoma, systemic therapy, dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound, gut microbiota, colorectal cancer, liver metastasis and the gut–liver axis.
Lucrezia Laterza obtained a Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome) in 2011 with a score of 110/110 cum laude. She specialized in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome) in 2017 with a score of 50/50 cum laude. She previously worked as a clinical observer at New York University (NYC, USA). Her areas of research and interest are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome, microbiota and gastrointestinal and gynecological dysbiosis, nutrition, digestive endoscopy, and ultrasound of the intestinal loops.
Franco Scaldaferri, MD, PhD, has been a gastroenterologist at the Gastro-unit of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore since 2009. His main expertise and responsibilities include the outpatient clinic for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), clinical trials, endoscopy, research activities, and translational research. He is a part of several scientific collaborations on IBD pathogenesis, IBD management and guidelines compilation, colonic cancer and cancer on chronic colitis, innate and adaptive immunity and IBD, colon cancer screening, intestinal microbiota composition, and modulation. He is a member of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE), the Italian Society of Internal Medicine (SIMI), and the Italian Group of IBD (IgIBD).
Dr. Maria Elena Ainora achieved her degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome) in 2006 with a score of 110/110 cum laude. She specialized in Internal Medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome) in 2013 with a score of 50/50 cum laude. Then, she worked as a Clinical Fellow in Hepatology and Internal Ultrasound at S. Orsola Malpighi University of Bologna in 2012. In 2017, she received her Ph.D. in the physiopathology of nutrition and metabolism at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome). Her areas of research and interests are abdominal ultrasound, color Doppler ultrasound of the liver, ultrasound with contrast medium, pancreatic ultrasound, ultrasound of the intestinal loops, ultrasound-guided interventional procedures, hepatology, and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini is a Full Professor of Gastroenterology and Chairman of the Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Division at the Agostino Gemelli Hospital, Catholic University of the Sacred
Heart. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery with honors in 1988 from the University of Bologna and is a specialist in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy. He attended the Liver
Transplantation Department of the University of Pittsburgh (USA) as a Clinical and Research Fellow in Gastroenterology from 1990 to 1993. He was President of the Italian Hepatology Research Foundation (FIRE) from 2008 to 2011, coordinator of the Alliance against Hepatitis (ACE) from 2010 to 2015, and Vice
President of the Italian Digestive Diseases Foundation From 2017 to 2019. He is a member of the council of the European Association of Gastroenterology Endoscopy and Nutrition (EAGEN) and of several national and international scientific societies.
Prof. Maria Assunta Zocco achieved her degree in medicine and surgery and finished her training in internal medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Then, she worked as a research fellow at the George-August University Göttingen. She also completed her Ph.D. in the Physiopathology of Nutrition and Metabolism at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. She was appointed a Clinical Fellow in Hepatology and Internal Ultrasound at the S. Orsola Malpighi University of Bologna in 2007. Her areas of research and interest include abdominal ultrasound, color Doppler ultrasound of the liver, ultrasound with contrast medium, pancreatic ultrasound, ultrasound of the intestinal loops, ultrasound-guided interventional procedures, hepatology, and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
