Role
Former Full Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Florence; President of the FIRMO Foundation and the Fragility Fracture Observatory (OFF Italia); Visiting Professor at McMaster University (Canada); Lecturer at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan; and Endocrinologist at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO).
Bio
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1977 from the University of Florence, in 1980 she specialized in endocrinology at the same university and in 1988 she obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Rome.
In 2003, she became a full professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases in Florence, a position she held until 2020. Alongside her academic career, she pursued a clinical career at the Careggi University Hospital, where she was head of the Reference Center for Hereditary Endocrine Tumors and Director of the Mineral Metabolism and Bone Diseases Unit. Since 2016, she has coordinated two European Reference Networks for rare endocrine diseases and rare bone diseases at the same hospital. She currently teaches at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, is a Visiting Professor at McMaster University , Canada, and an Endocrinologist at IEO, Milan.
An internationally renowned physician and researcher, author of over 1,100 peer-reviewed publications, she has been dedicated for years to the prevention and treatment of skeletal diseases. As president of the FIRMO Foundation (Italian Foundation for Research on Bone Diseases), she promotes awareness and prevention campaigns on osteoporosis, rare bone diseases, and rare endocrine diseases, and chairs the Fragility Fracture Observatory ITALY (OFF ITALIA).