Carmelo Scarpignato MD, DSc, PharmD, MPH, FRCP, FACP, FCP, FACG, AGAF

Carmelo Scarpignato graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Messina and in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Modena in Italy. He is currently Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Parma Medical School and Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Nates. Dr. Scarpignato is also a Consultant Physician & Clinical Pharmacologist at Maggiore University Hospital in Parma and Head of the Clinical Pharmacology & Digestive Pathophysiology Unit in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Parma. He has been a Visiting Professor at some prestigious European and USA Universities.

Carmelo has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on these topics and has also edited several books on clinical evaluation of GI function and on Pharmacology & Therapeutics of Digestive Diseases, Current Gastroenterology Reports, BMC Gastroenterology and Hepatogastroenterology, amongst others. He is also Senior Editor (GI and Liver Pharmacology) of Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology and of Gastroenterology International, and has been co-editor of two prestigious book series, Frontiers of Gastroenterology Research and Progress in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.

Professor Scarpignato is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and of the American College of Gastroenterology. In addition, he is a member of several national and international scientific societies, including the British Pharmacological Society, American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASFET). He is currently Secretary General of the World Organization of Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus (OESO).