Gian Carlo Di Renzo MD, PhD, FRCOG, FACOG, FICOG

Gian Carlo Di Renzo is a Professor of Obstetrics, Maternal Fetal Medicine, and Gynecology in addition to being the Director of the Permanent International and European School of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine (PREIS) in Florence (2012 – ). He is a distinguished Scholar at the PRB Unit at NIH-NICHD of Washington DC,  USA ( 2022- ). He has been a full Professor at the Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology at the I.M. Sechenov First State University of Moscow since 2019. He has been the former Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Perugia (2004 – 2022) and Director of the Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine Research  Center (2002-2022) at the University of Perugia.

He is the Founder & Editor of Chief, Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, the London Corresponding Editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the USA Advisory Board member, the March of Dimes Foundation, NY, USA President, the International Society on Chocolate, Cocoa, and Medicine (ISCHOM) Secretary General, the New European Surgical Academy (NESA). 

He is Fellow and eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (London) (FRCOG) and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG) Professor, the State Universities of Moscow, Krasnodar and Tomsk , Russia; the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; the International University of Dubrovnik, Croatia; the State University of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; the State University of Chisinau, Moldovia; the University of Kansas City Medical School, USA Doctor Honoris Causa, Universities of Prague, Cluj Napoca, Athens and St Petersburg Academic Member, the Romanian Academy of Sciences & the Russian Academy of Sciences Gold Medal of the Bangladesh Society of Ob/Gyn (1992), the Maratea Children Prize (1994), the Foundation Corradi Prize for “Scientific Research” (1998), the Liley Medal from the “Fetus as a Patient” International Society (2006), the Allan Chang Visiting Professorship (Hong Kong, 2007) and the Maternity Prize of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine in Istanbul (2008). 

His scientific production comprises over 1200 papers of which more than 300 are in referred international journals and 80 books. Invited as speaker to more than 1400 international and national congresses, meetings, and courses in more than 100 different countries.