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 President Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 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, 2nd October 1965 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 - 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 212 papers and abstracts on Italian and International Journals on IBD, Gastrointestinal Reflux Disease, Abdominal Pain, Pediatric Endoscopy and Coeliac Disease.