Edoardo V. Savarino received his Medical and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 2004 and 2009, respectively.
From 2004 to 2011, he completed his residency training in internal medicine and
fellowship training in gastroenterology, hepatology and endoscopy at the
Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, Azienda
Ospedaliera-Universitaria San Martino of Genoa. From 2006 to 2007, he was also
a Research Fellow at Univerisity Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. In 2011, he
became Assistant Professor at University of Padua. Presently, he is Professor
of Medicine. He is mainly interested in neurogastroenterology, motility and
pathophysiology of the gastrointestinal tract. He has published extensively on
gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), esophageal motility disorders, swallowing
disorders, Barrett’s Esophagus, functional disorders (functional dyspepsia,
irritable bowel syndrome), Helicobacter Pylori, achalasia, eosinophilic
esophagitis, new methodologies of esophageal function testing, H2-breath tests
and inflammatory bowel diseases. He received various prizes for his work from
United European Gastroenterology Federation from 2007 to 2014, OESO foundation
from 2008 to 2012, International Society of Diseases of the Esophagus from 2010
to 2014, Società Italiana di Gastroenterologia ed Endoscopia from 2007 to 2014.
He is an ISDE, OESO, SIGE, SIED, GISMAD, ESDO, IG-IBD, ESNM and ECCO member.
