Caterina Conte

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

Research Interests

• Mechanisms underlying obesity-related metabolic alterations (insulin resistance, NAFLD, type 2 diabetes)
• Glucose metabolism and bone health
• Metabolic and bariatric surgery

Academic Career

• 2018 – present: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (IT)
• 2018-2019: travel grants from the Italian Society of Diabetology (SID)
• 2016 – present: Consultant, Internal Medicine, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan (IT)
• 2016: PhD (Thesis: Vitamin D and insulin resistance: casualty or causality?), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome (IT)
• 2015: Young Investigator Award, Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism and Skeletal Diseases (SIOMMMS)
• 2012: Board certification in Internal Medicine
• 2009-2010: Visiting Researcher, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
• 2006: MD, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome (IT)

Goals

Being mentored by a leading European clinical diabetologist will provide a unique opportunity for me to:

• develop my specific research focus
• advance my research independence
• establish a network of international research contacts…
• …while continuing to practice clinical diabetology.