Role
President of the World Association for Infectious Diseases and Immunological Disorders (WAidid); Full Professor and Director of the School of Specialization in Pediatrics at the University of Parma; Director of the Pediatric Clinic at the University Hospital of Parma.
Bio
After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan in 1995, she specialized in Pediatrics in 1999 and in Infectious Diseases in 2006. She began his clinical and scientific activity in the Pediatric Clinic IV of the same Milanese university, focusing on infectious diseases in pediatric age, and continued his healthcare activity in the Pediatrics 1 Clinic Unit, later renamed the High Intensity Pediatrics Unit.
In 2002, she became a university researcher in General and Specialty Pediatrics and, since 2005, an associate professor at the University of Milan. From 2010 to 2016, she directed the High-Intensity Pediatrics Unit at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; from 2017 to 2019, she moved to the University of Perugia as a full professor and director of the Pediatric Clinic.
Since 2019, she has been a full professor of Pediatrics at the University of Parma and director of the Pediatric Clinical Unit at the Parma University Hospital. Since 2020, she has also been director of the School of Specialization in Pediatrics. Her work focuses on pediatric infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, pulmonology, digital healthcare, nutrition, and rare diseases.
She has coordinated research and clinical trials on viruses and bacteria for major childhood infections, conducting studies on the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of vaccinations and related guidelines. She chaired the WHO Commission for the Eradication of Measles and Congenital Rubella (2012–2016) and the Italian Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (2011–2015), holding prominent roles in European scientific societies. In 2012, she discovered two new enteroviruses (C-117 and C-118). She is active in national scientific societies (SIP, SITA, SIT, SIPPS) and ethics committees, collaborates with international research groups, and is the author of over 750 publications (h-index 95 Scopus, 118 Google Scholar ). She carries out intense teaching and institutional activities and is a member of the Top Italian Women Scientists (TIWS) .