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Mario Ciampolini

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER - Mario Ciampolini


Mario Ciampolini

University of Florence
Italy

BIOGRAPHY:

Mario Ciampolini is a professor from Universita di Firenze, Department of Pediatrics. Emeritus member of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. His current research interest is loss of hunger sensations as cause of alimentary diabetes and malnutrition. He directed the Gastroenterology Research Unit, a third level referral center in the department of Pediatrics of the University of Florence (Meyer hospital) from 1965 to 2000. In Tuscany he was the first person, who diagnosed celiac disease by the Watson capsule. He also worked at the Cornell University for a joined research with the University of Florence on energy expenditure in children. A long term strategy was designed with Giuliano Parrini, prof. of Physics (Firenze, It), Andrea Giommi, prof. of Statistics (Firenze, It), and Cutberto Garza, Boston College, Rector.

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