Cari amici e colleghi,In vista del rinnovo delle cariche riservate ai soci SIEDP nell’ambito della rivista "Journal of

Endocrinological Investigation", vorrei proporre la mia candidatura ad Associate Editor. Sarò onorato di una vostra eventuale preferenza. Vi ricordo che è possibile segnalare 1 nome per  Editor e Associate Editor e fino a 3 nomi per i Reviewing Editors del JEI. Se  ritenete  di  sostenere la mia candidatura, vi invito a indicare il mio nominativo entro il 5 luglio p.v., compilando la sezione apposita della scheda scaricabile dalla corrispondente pagina del portale della Società.

Un caro saluto a tutti

Antonio Balsamo

Antonio Balsamo - CURRICULUM VITAE

Address: Azienda Universitaria-Ospedaliera di Bologna, Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Unità Operativa di Pediatria, via Massarenti 11, 40138 Bologna, Italy Tel.+39 051 6364681, Fax +39 051 390070, E-mail: antonio.balsamo@unibo.it Born: 08 November 1950 in Brindisi (BR) - ItalyNationality: ItalianDegree: MD at the University of Bologna, Italy, in October 1976 Specializations: Paediatrics at the University of Bologna, Italy, June 1979; Endocrinology at the University of Florence, Italy, December 1982.PhD: in Paediatric Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases at the University of Pavia, Italy, July 1987.Research training at foreign Institutes and Laboratories: July 1st 1981 – June 30th 1982, Research Associate at the Paediatric Endocrinologic Department of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York (U.S.A) directed by Prof. Maria I.New.

Personal career: MD naval officer March 1977/Sept. 1978. Since 1980 Researcher in Pediatrics at the University of Bologna. Since 2005 Aggregate Professor in Pediatrics. Since 1980 member of the team of the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit of the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi of Bologna, Italy (present position: Dirigente Medico). Coordinator of the Day Hospital for Severe Obesity at the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit of the same Hospital. Coordinator of the Clinical Regional Center for CAH Neonatal Screening. Coordinator of the S.Orsola-Malpighi Team for CAH prenatal diagnosis and treatment.

Teaching career: since 1990 to date “Assignments of Pediatrics and Endocrinology teaching courses” at the Schools of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery of the University of Bologna, Italy. Teaching in Pediatrics at the “Corso di Diploma Universitario per Infermieri” (1997-2001) and at the “Nurse Degree Course ” (2002-2008).

Research activities: more than 35 relations as invited speaker at National and International Congresses; more than 200 abstracts published at National and International Congresses, several of which presented as personal communication at International Congresses of Endocrinology and Pediatric Endocrinology-Diabetology. Publication of more than 150 manuscripts and several reviews in National and International Journals. Co-investigator of the experimental and multicentric studies dealing with several pediatric endocrinopaties with particular interest in adrenal diseases, growth pathophysiology, obesity, pubertal disorders and disorders of sex development.

Membership of learned societies: Italian Society of Pediatrics (S.I.P.), the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (S.I.E.D.P./I.S.P.E.D.), the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (E.S.P.E.) and the Italian Society for Neonatal Screening (S.I.S.N.). In charge of the scientific supervision for the Pediatric Library; Member of the Directive Council for the Central Medical Library of the University of Bologna.