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Curriculum
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
17/03/25-now Researcher in Tenure Track in Pediatrics at “Maternal Infantile and Urological Science Department”, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
March 2024-March 2025 Post-doc in paediatrics at “Maternal Infantile and Urological Science
Department”, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
November 2020- February 24 PhD in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies in
Clinical Medicine”. “Sapienza” University of Rome. Title of
dissertation: “Studio della genetica nelle malattie respiratorie.
Correlazione genotipo-fenotipo in un gruppo di pazienti con
discinesia ciliare primaria.” Tutor: Prof F. Midulla
December 2014- August 2020: Post-graduating in Pediatrics. Title of dissertation: “Cluster analysis
per identificare differenti profili clinici in una coorte di bambini
ricoverati per bronchiolite nel corso di 15 stagioni epidemiche.”
22 March 2011: Certified doctor in Rome (270/270).
28 July 2010: Degree Medicine and Surgery (110/110 cum Laude), “Sapienza”
University of Rome. Title of dissertation: "Salivary screening of celiac
disease in 7300 primary school children. Characterization of Rome
school population", Supervisor: Prof. Margherita Bonamico.
November 2007-October 2013: Internship at “Celiac disease and malabsorptive diseases” Department
of Pediatrics, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
POST- GRADUATE STUDIES
- 2015:
Corso di Perfezionamento “Alimentazione in età pediatrica”.
- 2014
Master di aggiornamento professionale in “Dietologia e Nutrizione Clinica”
FORMAZIONE IN PNEUMOLOGIA PEDIATRICA:
- 20-21 June 2019
II corso “advanced” prove di funzionalità respiratoria in età pediatrica.
- 12-15 June 2019
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"European Respiratory Society Summer School in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine"
organized by European Respiratory Society (ERS). Barcellona, Spagna
- February 2018
Munich training School - ENTeR-chILD. Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases in children.
FELLOWSHIP
November 2019- July 2020: Service de Pneumologie et allergologie pédiatriques de l’Hôpital Necker-
Enfants Malades Paris (France) under the supervision of Prof C. Delacourt e A. Hadchouel
November 2017- January 2018: Fellowship at Imperial College London Department of Respiratory
Medicine, National Heart and Lung Division in London (UK) under the Supervision of Professor Peter
Openshaw. Funded by ERS (ERS Short-Term Research Training Fellowship 2016)
Fellowship ID Number: STRTF201610-00042
MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS
• Non CF bronchiectasis
• Primary ciliary dyskinesia
• Bronchiolitis
• Preschool wheeze
• Asthma
• Coeliac Disease
• Helicobacter pylori infection
- Funding Information
1. October 2023 - now: Child Bear Net (Children's Bronchiectasis Education, Advocacy and
Research Network) Registry Deputy Lead. Child BEAR Net is an ERS Clinical Research
Collaboration -CRC. (https://www.improvebe.org/registry)
2. September 2018 –2020: Partecipation in the Severe Paediatric Asthma Collaborative in
Europe (SPACE) Registry.
-Liu NM, Carlsen KCL, Cunningham S, Fenu G, Fleming LJ, Gappa M, Karadag B, Midulla
F, Petrarca L, Pijnenburg MWH, Reier-Nilsen T, Rutjes NW, Rusconi F, Grigg J. First
analysis of the Severe Paediatric Asthma Collaborative in Europe registry. ERJ Open Res.
2020;6:00566-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00566-2020. (period dal 01-09-2018 al 30-09-
2020)
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(Periodo dal 16-10-2023 ad oggi)
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
1. ASSOCIATE EDITOR (Early Career Researchers P) of "Italian Journal of Pediatrics” from 01-
08-2023-now
2. ASSOCIATE EDITOR of Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology ("Virus and host"
section). From 10-10-2023-now
REVIEWER ACTIVITY
- Reviewer activity for the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP)
- “Pediatric Research”
- “International journal of infectious diseases”
- “European respiratory Journal”
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- “Pediatric Pulmonology”
- “Vaccines”
- “Frontiers in pediatrics”
AUTHOR OF 91 PAPERS IN EXTENSO – 1264 TOTAL CITATIONS: -H-index: 20 (SCOPUS)
ORAL PRESENTATION:
1. “Clinical aspects of paediatric bronchiectasis”. Session: Paediatric Bronchiectasis Track – Skill
workshop- Sharpening your skills on diagnosing bronchiectasis in children and other causes of
chronic wet cough. 7th World Bronchiectasis Conference 6th July 2024. Dundee (UK).
2. “Bronchiectasie non FC: diagnostica differenziale” Seminario SIMRI online Giornata Mondiale
Delle Bronchiectasie. 1 luglio 2024.
3. “Diagnostica delle bronchiectasie non FC e della discinesia ciliare primaria” nel Congresso
Nazionale Chest 2024: American College of Chest Physicians. Capaccio Paestum 13-15 Marzo
2024.
4. “Dalla bronchite batterica protratta alle bronchiectasie non-FC” al corso ECM residenziale: “in
Puero Homo: Giornate di Pneumo-Immuno-Allergologia. Roma 2-3 febbraio 2024.
5. “Nuove mutazioni genetiche nella PCD” XXVII Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di
Malattie Respiratorie Infantili (SIMRI) - Respirare bene per vivere meglio! ROMA, 21 - 23
settembre 2023.
6. Oral communication: “Primary ciliary dyskinesia: genotype characterization and lung function in
a group of Italian patients” 3rd European Bronchiectasis Workshop 23-25 February 2023 - Milan,
Italy.
7. Oral communication: "Paediatric grand round: Persistent lung consolidations in a 9-year-old boy".
ERS (European Respiratory Society) International Congress 2020 virtual. Studio Vienna.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOK
1. Exercise induced bronchoconstriction in ”La spirometria in età pediatrica” 2020, Giannini editore.
2. “Vascular malformations”, in the second edition of the ERS Handbook of Paediatric Respiratory
Medicine. In
3. Nenna R, Florio M, Pontone S, Mastrogiorgio G, Petrarca L, Pietropaoli N, Bonamico M. Celiac
Disease: New Therapeutic Options. In “Gluten: Sources, Composition and Health Effects”. Edited
by DB Walter pp.131-41, 2013. (ISBN: 9: /3/8483: /566/7)
4. Pontone S, Petrarca L, Nenna R. Helicobacter pylori Infection in Children. In “Helicobacter pylori:
Detection Methods, Diseases and Health Implications”. Edited by Nova Publishers 2013;337-46.