Valeria Calcaterra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pavia, and a Pediatrician at the Department of Pediatrics, Buzzi Children’s Hospital, Milan, Italy. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pavia and completed her residency cum laude in Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatric Science at Pavia University. Her research interests include pediatric endocrinology and diabetology, auxology, immunology and autoimmunity, diabetes mellitus, pediatric obesity and metabolic complications, bariatric surgery in young patients, malnutrition, thyroid autoimmune
disease, disorders of puberty, congenital and rare diseases, and translational research.
Dr. Andrea Foppiani is a researcher at the International Center for the Assessment of Nutritional Status and the Development of Dietary Intervention Strategies (ICANS-DIS), Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), University of Milan. He graduated from the University of Milian with a Human Nutrition and Food Science and received a PhD in Nutritional Sciences. His research interests include resting energy expenditure, neurological diseases, and Nutrition Assessment.
Prof. Dr. Elvira Verduci is Head of the Metabolic Disease Unit at the Department of Pediatrics, Vittore Buzzi Children's Hospital, Milan, and at the Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan. She is currently the Guest Editor of the journal Nutrients and Life and an Editorial Board Member of the journal Nutrients in MDPI. Her main research interests include enteral and parenteral nutrition, neurologically impaired children, childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome, inherited metabolic disorders, and gut microbiota.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Brucato was employed at the Niguarda Hospital, initially in Anesthesia and Intensive Care from 1986 to 2007 and then from 1988 in Internal Medicine. Since 2007, he has been the Director of
the Internal Medicine department of the Riuniti Hospital in Bergamo (later renamed Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital). Since April 2018, he has been an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine at the Department of
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “L. Sacco” of the University of Milan. Since September 2018, he has directed the Fatebenefratelli Internal Medicine Department of the ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco in Milan.
Previously, from 2010 to 2018, he was a contract professor at the University of Milan Bicocca, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, for the degree course in Obstetrics and the degree course in Physiotherapy. In
2017–2019, he was the President of FADOI Lombardy Region. He is a member of the Federation of Associations of Internist Hospital Managers (FADOI), the Italian Society of Internal Medicine (SIMI), the Italian Society of Rheumatology, the College of Hospital Rheumatologists (CROI), the Scientific Committee of the GILS (Italian Group to Fight Scleroderma), the LES Lombardy Group, the GILP (Italian Group to Fight Pericarditis), the Nucleus (i.e. of the Board) of the Working Group on Myocardial, and the Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Dr. Chiara Moltrasio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dermatology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree (Reproduction and Developmental Sciences) at the University of Trieste. Her research interests include genetics of autoimmune/autoinflammatory skin diseases, genodermatoses, and infectious diseases. She is also involved in coordination and drafting of research projects.
Dr. Maurizio Romagnuolo is currently a consultant dermatologist at the Via Pace clinic (IRCCS Ca' Granda Foundation, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan), where he mainly deals with the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune skin diseases and the prevention of skin tumors. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Naples Federico II. Since November 2023, he is completing his PhD in the dermatological field focused on immune diseases of the skin, specializing in Dermatology and Venereology at the University of Milan. He is a member of the main national and European dermatological societies as well as the author of several publications in scientific journals.
Dr. Lucia Trotta is a doctor with ward and outpatient activities at the Pneumology III Medicine Unit at Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan. In 2009, she received a qualification to practice the profession of Doctor-Surgeon at the University of Pavia, where she specialized School in Internal Medicine—Center for the Treatment and Research of Celiac Disease, Medical Clinic I IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo. Her technical skills and competencies are performing thoracentesis, paracentesis, bone marrow aspirate, nasogastric tube positioning, and indirect immunofluorescence assays.
Prof. Valeria Savasi is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan, SSD MED/40—Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “L.Sacco” since 2016. She qualified as a Full Professor in 2018. She is also the Director of the PMA Departmental Unit (Assisted Reproduction Centre) of the Maternal and Child Department and the Director of the Complex Unit of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of the Sacco Hospital of the ASST-Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital in Milan. She received a research doctorate from the University of Milan XVI cycle in Prenatal Development Sciences, Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy.
Prof. Dr. Gianvincenzo Zuccotti has been a Full Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Milan from 2010; a Head of the Department of Pediatrics, University of Milan, at the Children's Hospital, Milan, since 2014; and a Director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center. His research interests include obesity, diabetes, viruses, clinical, endocrinology, and nutrition. He is the author of 783 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields (source from ResearchGate/Scopus).
He is a Member of the Italian Society for Pediatrics (SIP), the Technical Committee for Meningitis of the Lombardia Region, the National Committee for AIDS of the Italian Ministry of Health, the National Committee for Vaccinations of the Italian Pediatric Society, and the CNSA of the Italian Ministry of Health.
