Fernando Bessone, MD, PhD

Biography

Fernando Bessone, MD,PhD
Dr Bessone is a Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Rosario Medical School (Argentina).
He holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Tucuman (Argentina)
He is also the head of the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital of Rosario Medical School.
He is a member of the faculty committee of 5 posgraduate programs.
He is a Past-president of the Argentinian Association for Study of Liver Diseases (SAHE) and Ex-Director of the Argentinian Journal of Hepatology.
He earned his medical degree from the Rosario Medical School, and a Gastroenterology specialization from the Medical College of Rosario (Argentina). He is also specialist in Hepatology (Title given by the Argentinian Ministery of Health and the SAHE).
He has conducted a residency in Gastroenterology at the Hospital Provincial del Centenario, University of Rosario Medical School, as well as several fellowships in Clinical Hepatology, Liver Pathology (Hospital de Clinicas, San Pablo-Brazil), Pediatric Hepatology (Hospital da Criança, San Pablo-Brasil), Liver Transplantation and Clinical Hepatology, (Hospital Clinic y Provincial de Barcelona, Spain).
He has participated as a principal investigator or co-investigator in more than 70 clinical trials.
He has been invited as a guest professor in several foreign Universities including Pensilvania and Iceland Universities.
He has received 9 academic awards (to the best research work) from different societies. His main research areas include hepatotoxicity and viral hepatitis.
He is a coordinator from Argentina of the Latin American registry of hepatotoxicity (LATINDILI).
He has participated as an Expert in the Latinamerican guidelines on alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis B, recommendation in chronic hepatitis C and panel member for Argentinian Recommendations on the Management of non-alcoholic faty liver disease.
He was a coodinator of DILI position paper and management recommendations for Latin America
He is currently a Member of the Expert Committee on viral hepatitis from the Argentinian Association for the study of the Liver (SAHE)
He was part of the consensus and expert panel discussion at the meeting on new definitions and management of drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis held in Malaga in March 2022 and published in Journal of Hepatology
He is also a reviewer from several Journals including Hepatology and Journal of Hepatology.
He is an author of more than 100 published papers, 30 chapters in books, and more than 170 papers presented at meetings.