Role
Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Padua; Director of the Gastroenterology Unit at the University Hospital of Padua.
Bio
After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua in 1984, Patrizia Burra specialized in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy. In 1993, she earned a PhD in Hepatological Sciences and joined the University Hospital of Padua, first as an assistant in Gastroenterology and then, in 1997, as a Level I Medical Director.
Since 2001, she has been a University Researcher in Gastroenterology at the Department of Surgical, Oncological, and Gastroenterological Sciences. From 2004 to 2008, she was Head of the Regional Specialized Center for Cellular Therapy of Metabolic Diseases, and from 2010 to 2025, she was Director of the Departmental Multivisceral Transplant Unit.
In 2014, she became an Associate Professor and in 2019, a Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Padua. From 2015 to 2021, she served as Vice Rector for Postgraduate Training, and from 2021 to the present, she has been Delegate for Specialization Schools and the Observatory for Specialization Training.
His clinical research focuses on liver disease , liver cirrhosis , alcohol-related liver disease, metabolic disorders, post-transplant complications, and quality of life in transplant patients. He has conducted studies on neurological function and cerebral blood flow in liver transplant candidates. He has also conducted basic research on human hepatocytes, thyroid hormone receptors, and umbilical cord blood stem cells differentiated into hepatocytes.