La professoressa Annamaria Staiano è una figlia di Napoli, is a daughter of Naples, and to the city of her birth, medical education, and present professorial chair in paediatrics at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II she has ever been loyal – aside from several years in St. Louis, Missouri, where she undertook subspecialty training in paediatric gastroenterology.

She today is the guest of ESPGHAN at the hundredth podcast that your society has organised and sponsored. Think of it – one hundred podcasts! And that today she joins us is doubly a distinction, because her presidency of ESPGHAN was recently inaugurated in Helsinki: We here have the opportunity to meet her and to learn from her not only what ambitions and hopes she has for ESPGHAN but also how she has ascended the cursus honorum. In that ascent she has not simply balanced clinical care-giving with academic research; she has, by taking part in service to ESPGHAN and its members, helped to guide and to advance the society and its aims, which of course are listeners’ aims as well.

Listeners will not be surprised to learn that Prof Staiano is well-published, with contributions to many fields within paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition. At my request, she has named two works that are, in her opinion, of particular significance to her discipline... but also that are of particular significance to her. To review those works, and to hear her reflections on what they meant to her at the time of their accomplishment and in the years since, can illustrate the evolution of what has been a career of signal achievement, a career from which aspiring members, younger members, of ESPGHAN can surely learn.

Literature:

- Hyams JS et al. Childhood functional gastrointestinal disorders: Child / adolescent. Gastroenterology 2006 Apr;130(5):1527-1537. Doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.08.063. PMID: 16678566. PMCID: PMC7104693Levine A et al. ESPGHAN revised Porto criteria for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2014 Jun;58(6):795-806. Doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000000239. PMID: 24231644

Prof. Staiano´s favourite song: Torna a surriento” by Enrico Caruso

ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo