Carlo Catassi is a Medical Doctor (graduated at the University of Pisa (Italy), and a Board-Certified specialist in (1) Pediatrics (University of Pisa, Italy), (2) Human Nutrition (“La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy), and (3) Epidemiology and Statistics (University of Milan, Italy). He is full professor of Pediatrics, and has been Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Head of the Residency program in Pediatrics at the Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona (Italy) until November 2023. He is currently Scientific Advisor of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, Italy, and has an appointment as Non-Clinical Staff at the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA). He has been the President of the Italian Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (SIGENP) from 2013 to 2016. He has been a Board member of the International Society for the Study of Celiac Disease (ISSCD) from 2019 to 2022.
Since the early ‘90s, the scientific activity of Prof. Carlo Catassi focused on topics related to pediatric gastroenterology, particularly related to celiac disease and other gluten-related disorders. All these researches and works have been the subject of a large number of publications, including papers on the highest ranked journals of medicine, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Gastroenterology and the American Journal of Medicine. As today, he is the author of 260 publications reported on Pubmed. He also wrote several books and book chapters related to Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Prof. Catassi participated in several collaborative studies at the national and international level, some of which have been financed by the European Union (BIOMED 2, years 1998-2001; FP5 “The Genetics and the Epidemiology of Coeliac Disease in Europe, years 2000-2003). Prof. Catassi has served as an invited speaker to the most important International Meeting on celiac disease, including the Digestive Disease Week (DDW), the EUGW, meetings of the International Society for Celiac Disease, the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and the CAPGAN.
