Current Concepts and Controversies on Aceruloplasminemia

Speakers: Elena Corradini

Having received her MD degree from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2001, Dr. Corradini specialized in Internal Medicine at the same University in 2006. Her post-doctoral training includes a Clinical and Research Associate position at the Center for Hemochromatosis and Heredometabolic Liver Diseases and Laboratory of Iron Metabolism (Modena, Italy) under the guidance of Prof. A.Pietrangelo, a Research Associate position at the Program in Membrane Biology of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Research Fellow position at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) under the guidance of Prof. H.Y.Lin and J.L.Babitt.

Dr. Corradini is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, since 2015. She is an Attending Physician at the Division of Internal Medicine and Centre for Hemochromatosis and Heredometabolic Liver Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Modena, since 2012. She is the referring physician for the "Hemochromatosis and Heredometabolic Diseases Clinic" and "Laboratory of Molecular Genetics".  She is an affiliate expert of the ERN-EuroBloodNet subnetwork "Hemochromatosis and other rare genetic disorders of iron metabolism and heme synthesis". She is currently panelist for the EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on hemochromatosis.

Her basic and clinical research activities mainly focus on iron metabolism and iron-related disorders, including the molecular, pathophysiological and clinical characterization of iron storage diseases, and complex internal medicine diseases.

She is a member of the International BioIron Society, the European and Italian Associations for the Study of the Liver, and the Italian Society of Internal Medicine. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and she is a reviewer for several scientific journals in the fields of Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, and Hematology. She is Associate Editor for Internal and Emergency Medicine journal.