Lorenzo D'Antiga, MD, FEBT

Biography

I am a paediatric Hepatologist and Gastroenterologist working in Bergamo, Italy. My current position is Director of Child Health and of the Paediatric Liver, GI and Transplantation Unit of the Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII of Bergamo, and Associate Professor at the University of Milano - Bicocca. I trained as a Paediatrician at the University of Padua and as a Paediatric Hepatologist at King's College Hospital, London. I worked as Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist as well as Paediatric Intensivist, specializing in organ failure and transplantation. My main fields of interest are cholestatic disease, genetic disease, liver failure, liver transplantation and liver-directed gene therapy.
I contributed to the field of paediatric hepatology with publications, scientific presentation and invited lectures, and I am the editor of a textbook of paediatric hepatology and liver transplantation. Member of the Council of the European Society for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) as Education Secretary (till 2014) and member of the Education Committee of the UEG (till 2014), I am currently a Member of the Council of the ESPGHAN with the role of Treasurer (since June 2022). I served as Senior Associate Editor for Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and as Associate Editor of Liver Transplantation. Currently I serve as Associate Editor for Journal of Hepatology.