Dr. Uberto Pagotto MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Director of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Prevention and Care Unit in the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S.Orsola Policlinic, Alma Mater University of Bologna, Italy. He earned his medical degree from Padua University, Padua, Italy, and after completing his residency and his PhD in Endocrinology, earned his post-doctoral qualification in neuroendocrinology at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. Since 2001 he is in Bologna.
His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, such as Endocrine Reviews, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Cell Metabolism, PNAS, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Diabetes, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Trends in Molecular Medicine, European Journal of Endocrinology and Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology.
Dr. Pagotto has received several awards, including the 1995 Marius Tausk Award, presented by the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE) to Best Young Scientist in Endocrinology; the 2002 Award for Best Young European Scientist in Basic Neuroendocrinology presented by the European Neuroendocrine Association (ENEA); and the 2011 SIE Award for the More Distinct Italian Endocrinologist under 50 presented by the Italian Society of Endocrinology.
He was participant of many European Projects such as “Diabesity”, “Reprobesity” and “Neurofast” including the recently granted: “Plan’eat”.
Dr. Pagotto has been designed member presented by the European Society of Endocrinology as “2011 ESE representative on the US Endocrine Society’s clinical practice guideline on medical, nutritional and pharmacologic management of obesity”, he was member of Obedis@ (Guidelines for Obesity Dietary Intervention Sharing), a group of European experts who have to exchange and make concrete suggestions on the more relevant phenotyping criteria, their assessment methods, and their ontology that should be systematically collected in each clinical intervention study of obesity. He has been recently nominated Clinical Lead of the European Society of Endocrinology Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolism/Nutrition Focus Area.
Dr. Uberto Pagotto is author of 226 peer reviewed full papers in international journals. His current interests include pharmacotherapy of obesity and the role of steroids in many pathophysiological conditions.
