CARLO CATASSI

Carlo Catassi is professor of Pediatrics, Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Residency Program in Pediatrics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, and Visiting Scientist at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston (USA). He graduated in Medicine in 1977 and then specialized in Pediatrics, Human Nutrition and Biostatistics. From 2001 onward he spent long periods of time in the USA collaborating with the Center for Celiac Research firstly in Baltimore and then in Boston. He was President of the Italian Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition from 2013 to 2016. Prof Catassi’s main research interest is the epidemiology and clinical spectrum of celiac disease and other gluten-related disorders. As in January 2021 he is coauthor of several books on pediatric Gastroenterology, particularly on gluten-related disorders, and of 196 publications indexed on the PubMed, including original articles and reviews published on the major international journal, e.g. the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, and Gastroenterology, and has a H-Index of 54 (Scopus).

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"How to cope with the growing celiac iceberg"