Author Biographies

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.
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Valentina Fabiano is currently a Pediatrician at the Department of Pediatric, Buzzi Children’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano. She completed her master’s degree with 110/110 cum laude in Medicine and Surgery and Post-graduate Course with 70/70 cum laude in Pediatrics. She is also the Director of the Postgraduate School of Pediatrics at the Università degli Studi di Milano and a Member of the Italian Society of Pediatrics. Her research interests are focused on the study of general pediatrics, nutrition, probiotics, prebiotics, and pediatric infectious diseases.
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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.
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