Su richiesta giuseppe.indolfi(AT)unifi.it
Professore associato di Pediatria presso il Dipartimento NEUROFARBA
Responsabile della SOC Pediatria Medica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer, IRCCS
Professore associatoSettore disciplinare MED38, Pediatria, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Psicologia, Area del Farmaco e Salute del Bambino, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Responsabile di Struttura Operativa Complessa “Pediatria Medica” – Area Medica, Dipartimento delle specialità di pediatria medica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer, IRCCS Firenze
Principali Competenze professionali
▪ Approccio clinico e gestione diagnostico-terapeutica di pazienti in età pediatrica con patologia internistica di tipo medico maturata nell’attività continuativa in un reparto pediatrico ad alta intensità di cura in un ospedale pediatrico di riferimento regionale ed extra-regionale di terzo livello.▪ Ricerca clinica ed epidemiologica in ambito pediatrico con particolare, ma non esclusivo, riferimento alle malattie infettive del fegato; storia naturale dell'infezione da virus dell'epatite B e C in età pediatrica; terapia con farmaci antivirali; studi clinici di fase II, III, IV. ▪ Attività di consulenza per World Health Organization, European Center fo Disease Control and Prevention; European Medicines Agency, Associazione Italiana del Farmaco. ▪ Attività di ricerca collaborativa: sindrome di Alagille, atresia delle vie biliari, colestasi familiari progressive intraepatiche, altre epatopatie rare.▪ Attività di collaborazione con European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN; membro dell'Hepatology Committee dal 2016, chair dal 2020)
Pubblicazioni
Autore di più di 200 pubblicazioni in estenso, peer-reviewed. Impact factor totale >1000.
Partecipazione come relatore a convegni di carattere scientifico in Italia e all'estero
Relatore a più di 100 convegni di carattere scientifico (nazionali ed internazionali)
Pediatria, Epatologia Pediatrica
Pediatra con particolare interesse in Epatologia Pediatrica
Legenda
Giuseppe Indolfi is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics in the Department of NEUROFARBA at the University of Florence. He is a paediatrician and paediatric hepatologist at Meyer Children’s University Hospital, IRCCS, in Florence and he is the Director of the Paediatric ward. Professor Indolfi’s research primarily focuses on paediatric hepatology, acute and chronic viral hepatitis, and the development of antiviral treatments for children.
He has served as a consultant on viral hepatitis for the World Health Organization and as Chair of the Hepatology Committee of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) from 2020 to 2023.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
Current Positions
1/Jan/2025 - ongoing
Head of the Complex Operative Unit of Medical Pediatrics
Department of Paediatric Specialties, Meyer Children’s University Hospital IRCCS, Florence
1/Oct/2018 - ongoing
Associate professor (general paediatrics, paediatric specialties and paediatric psychiatry) Department NEUROFARBA (Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Psicologia, Area del Farmaco e Salute del Bambino), University of Florence
1/Nov/2016 - ongoing
Head of the Operative Unit of "Hepatology"
17 May 2024 - ongoing
Editor in chief Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Reports
Past relevant positions
05/Jun/2020 – 5/May/2023:
Chair, Hepatology Committee European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Dates (from – to)
2007-2010
• Title of qualification awarded
PhD
2001 –2006
Paediatrician
1995 – 2001
Medical doctor
WORK EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE ITALY
14/Jan/2013 - 25/Jan/2013
Clinical Observer
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Medical Director of the Pediatric Liver Care Center, professor William F. Balistreri
25/Jan/2010 - 04/Jan/2010
17/Aug/2009 - 04/Sep/2009
04/Apr/2008 - 05/Sep/2008
Honorary Clinical Observer
Paediatric Liver Centre, King's College Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Director professor Giorgina Mieli-Vergani
OTHER
MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH
Paediatric liver disease
Viral hepatitis
Paediatric infectious diseases
International clinical research networks in paediatrics
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Author of >200 peer reviewed articles. Impact factor: >1000. Author of 8 book chapters (5 in English).
INVITED SPEAKER
Invited to lecture in more than 80 international conferences and workshops including AASLD, ESPGHAN, FISPGHAN, EASL, WSPID, ESPID, ICAAC all around the world
PROJECT LEADERSHIP AND MAIN FUNDING
Project leader and coordinator of multiple projects funded at regional, country level
European Commission
18/April/2018
Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020. 8. Health, demographic change and wellbeing. Research on HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and/or hepatitis C (HCV) in patients with mono-, co-infections and/or comorbidities in the context of fostering collaboration with the Russian Federation.
Title: REACH: Russian European Alliance for research among women, Children and adolescents impacted by HIV, TB and HCV
Local principal investigator; 2 986 749
20/Apr/2012
FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1
Title: HIV and Hepatitis co-infection in pregnant women, children and adolescents (PENTAHep)
Local principal investigator. Funded on the reserve list due to budgetary limitations; 5 997 048 €
COLLABORATIONS
WHO
World Health Organization
ESPGHAN
European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
FISPGHAN
Federation of International Societies of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
PENTA-ID
PENTA - Infectious Disease
ECDC
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
EMA
European Medicines Agency
EXTRACURRICULAR PERSONAL INTERESTS
2007 - ongoing
Founder and member of the board of Associazione Engera Africa Caring People Onlus (no profit organization for medical volunteering in Ethiopia)
Medical Voluntary Work: Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) @ “Madonna della Vita Village, Saint Mary Orphanage”; Manganasse (Guraghe Zone, Ethiopia) @ Manganasse Clinique; Getche (Guraghe Zone, Ethiopia) @ Saint Gabriel Clinique; and Burath Getho (Guraghe Zone, Ethiopia) @ Burath Getho Clinique
1989-1997
Malattie Pediatriche
Epatologia Pediatrica
Paediatrician with interest in paediatric liver diseases