Prof. Diego Ferone, MD, PhD
Diego Ferone is Full Professor of Endocrinology at the Department of Internal Medicine & Medical Specialties at the University of Genova, Director of the Post-Graduate School of Endocrinology & Metabolism and chief of the Endocrine Unit of the Center of Excellence for Biomedical Research (CEBR) of this University, Director of the Endocrinology Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Martino.
He is senior member of the Italian Endocrine Society (where he also served as Treasurer and General Secretary), past-secretary of the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine, member of the Advisory Board of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society, past member of the ExCo of the European Neuroendocrine Association, and member of several Editorial Boards, Associate Editor for the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation and past associate editor for Clinical Endocrinology. Diego Ferone, after the degree in Medicine and the postgraduate degree in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the “Federico II” University of Naples, received the PhD degree in Neuroendocrinology in Rotterdam at the Erasmus University, where he spent more than 4 years in the laboratory of Steven Lamberts and Leo Hofland.
He has been awarded by the Italian Society of Endocrinology as best young investigator in 1999, best senior scientist (career award) in 2011, and he also received an award as best Italian researcher in the field of Neuroendocrine Tumors and MEN in 2010. Dr. Ferone has been constantly involved in studies on the physiopathology and treatment of pituitary and neuroendocrine tumors, physiopathology of somatostatin and dopamine receptors in the immune and neuroendocrine systems, medical therapy of acromegaly, Cushing disease, neuroendocrine tumors and hypopituitarism, and is author of more than 290 peer reviewed articles. Moreover, he presented more than 600 lectures in international and national meetings, and is author of 40 chapters of book (total impact factor over 560; h-index 46).
He has been among the organizers of the XXXI Congress of Italian Endocrine Society (Genova 2005), of the First Italian Endocrine Oncology Workshop (Udine 2009) and of the First National Congress of Endocrine Oncology: from bench to bedside (Rome 2011), of the Master Up-to Date in Neuro-Onco-Endocrinology (2010 Genova); Member of the POC of the 2010 and 2014 ENEA Meetings (Liege and Sofia) and of the 12th International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (Gubbio 2010), President of the POC for the 2016 ENEA Meeting (Milan, Italy).