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.
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.
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.