Alessandra Colantoni

Alessandra Colantoni was born in Bologna, Italy in November 1966. She attended the University of Bologna School of Medicine. She is specialist in Geriatrics and has a Master degree in Hepatology and Transplant Medicine. She has been trained in Hepatology in Bologna under the supervision of Giovanni Gasbarrini, MD and Mauro Bernardi, MD, and in the USA by David H van Thiel, MD. During the years spent in the USA (1993-2002), she added to her clinical education several years of basic science training collaborating with several world famous scientists in the fields of ageing, free radicals, cytokine biology and alcohol (Elizabeth Kovacs, PhD, Robert Floyd, PhD, Judith Gavaler, PhD, Pamela Witte, PhD). She also worked as a physician in the Emergency Room of the Policlinico of Modena Hospital. Her fields of interest are geriatrics, hepatology and emergency medicine. She has an active collaboration with Anziani e non solo Soc Coop (Carpi, Italy) on caregiving related issues, with Fabio Salvi, MD, of INRCA (Ancona, Italy) on emergency geratirics and with the LGBT community in Bologna (Cassero) on the ageing of the LGBT community. She currently lives and works in Modena, Italy. .She is a member of Rotary International and in 2016 she was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow Award. She speaks English fluently.