Catholic University. Antonio Gasbarrini is the new Dean of Medicine and Surgery

The full professor of Internal Medicine will lead the Faculty starting from November 1st. He succeeds Professor Rocco Bellantone.

07 LUG –

It’s the professor Antonio Gasbarrini the new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart for the four-year period 2023/24 – 2027/28. Professor Gasbarrini, Full Professor of Internal Medicine, was elected Dean by the Faculty Council in the meeting of 6 July 2022 and will take office on 1 November 2022. He succeeds Professor Rocco Bellantone, Dean of the Faculty from 2010 to 2022.

The Rector Franco Anelli, on behalf of the entire university community, he congratulated Professor Gasbarrini on his new post, expressing his warmest wishes for a good job. The Rector then thanked Professor Bellantone for his commitment and the results achieved during his three mandates, underlining the important educational and scientific growth of the Faculty of Medicine on a national and international level – which has just celebrated 60 years of prestigious history. – carried out during his long and passionate presidency.

Antonio Gasbarrini, specialist in Internal Medicine and in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy, attended as Clinical and Research Fellow in Gastroenterology the Biochemical Lab Liver Transplantantion Department of the University of Pittsburgh (USA) from 1990 to 1993.

He is Director of the School of Specialization in Internal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and of the Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Operating Units and of the CEMAD-Digestive Diseases Center of the Gemelli University Hospital Foundation IRCCS. He is the coordinator of the integrated course of Medical Clinic and Medical Therapy of the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the IRCCS Gemelli University Polyclinic Foundation.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group (EHMSG), of the European Association of Gastroenterology Endoscopy and Nutrition (EAGEN), of the scientific committee of the United European Gastroenterology (UEG), of the Italian Celiac Association (AIC) and of the Transdisciplinary Research on Food Issues Center (TROFIC) of the Catholic University

Author of over 1240 publications cited on PubMed, he has an impact factor for published works of over 4000, an H-Index of 91 according to Scopus and 116 according to Google Scholar and his works have been cited more than 60,000 times. He is editor of numerous international scientific journals and member of Italian and international scientific societies. From 2006 to 2008 he was Secretary of the Italian Association for Liver Study (AISF) and from 2008 to 2011 President of the Italian Research Foundation in Hepatology (FIRE), from 2010 to 2015 coordinator of Alliance against Hepatitis (ACE), from 2016 to 2021 he was vice president of the Italian Digestive Diseases Foundation.

His fields of interest concern acute and chronic inflammatory and oncological diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas. In recent years he has developed a particular focus on the role of the intestinal microbiota in the health and pathogenesis of digestive and extradigestive diseases, in the interaction between Liver-Gut and Brain-Gut, and on the role that nutrition, probiotics, antibiotics and microbiota transplantation exert for modulate it.

07 July 2022
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