Curriculum

Curriculum

Claudio Romano, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Head of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Cystic Fibrosis Unit
Department of Human Pathology and Pediatrics
University of Messina, Italy

Vice President Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology
 
Home address: Via Osservatorio 1,
98121 MESSINA, ITALY
Tel. ++39 090 340066
 
Hospital address: AOU University Hospital,  Viale Gazzi, Messina, Italy
 
e-mail: romanoc@unime.it
 
Place and date of birth: Messina, 2^nd October 1965
 
Family members: wife Luisa Ricciardi, daughters Alessia and Valentina
 
Qualifications:
 
• Degree in Medicine at Messina University in October 1989 with first class honours.
 
• Specialization in Pediatrics at University of Messina, in  November 1993 with first class honours.
 
Further experience:
 
March-April 1996 - He attended the Pediatric Unit of Gastroenterology and Digestive Motility at the University of Naples "Federico II" focusing on ph-metry and manometry in Gastroesophageal Reflux and on Gastrointestinal motility disorders. He also gained valuable experience in the endoscopic technique of colon diseases especially as regards Inflammatory  Bowel Diseases.
     
April- June 1994 - He attended the Division of Gastoenterelogy and liver disease of the Hopital Universitaire des Enfants "Reine Fabiola" in Bruxelles focusing on Pediatric Endoscopy and on Gastrointestinal motility. He actively participated to doctor-surgical Seminaries organized with the Surgery Unit . He also dedicated  his interest towards  patients with hepatic transplant and issues concerning Nutrition.
 
December 1997 – He attended the 7^th Annual Course of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology of the Royal Free Hospital in London organized by prof. J.A. Walker- Smith
 
September-October 1998 – He attended the Division of Pediatric Digestive Surgery and Endoscopy at the “Bambin Gesu’” Hospital in Rome
 
Visiting Professor, University Emory of Atlanta USA ( 2012-2013)
September- October 2014: He attended the IBD Unit, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
 
Affiliation to Scientific Societies
 
• Member of the Italian Pediatric Society (SIP) from 1992
 
• Member of the Italian Gastroenterology and Epatology Society (SIGEP) from 1997 and Member of the Executive Committee from 2002
 
• Member of the Italian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SIAIC) from 1995.
 
• Member of the “Club del Tenue” from 1994.
                                            
• Member of the American Crohn-Colitis Foundation
 
• Member of the  Italian Celiac Foundation (AIC)
 
• Member of AMICI (Chronic Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases Foundation)
 
• Member of the Italian Society of Hospital Gastronterologists (AIGO) from 1998
 
• International Member of ASGE ( American Society of Digestive Endoscopy) from 2000.
 
• Member of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy
 
• Chairmen of the Italian Working Group on Sedation in Pediatric Endoscopy
 
• Chairmen of the “Bambi Project 2000 ” with the aim of spreading information on the development of Pediatric Digestive Endoscopy in Italy
 
• Member of the ESPGHAN Working Group Endoscopy
 
• Member and Chairmen, respectively, of 2 multicentric working groups  (“  Omega 3 in manteinance of remission in Crohn Disease”  - “ Beclometasone for induction remission in ulcerative colitis” ) in Inflammatory Bowel  Diseases
 
• Scientific Adviser of “INSIEME” the Italian Association of Pediatric and young adult patients with IBD
 
• Number of Medical Licence: n° 6767
 
• Author of 151 papers and abstracts on Italian and International Journals on IBD, Gastrointestinal Reflux Disease, Abdominal Pain, Pediatric Endoscopy and  Coeliac Disease.