Stefano Del Prato#
| Membership Number: | 6940 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5388-0270 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Affiliate Professor of Medicine - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
- 2023 - present President - European Diabetes Forum
- 2020 - 2022 President Eusorpean Association for the Study of Diabetes
- 2016 - 2022 Coordinator, PhD Programme “Clinical and Translational Sciences”, University of Pisa, Italy
- 2010 - 2012 Director, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Orthopedics, Traumatology, Occupational Health, University of Pisa, Italy
- 2010 - 2012 President, Italian Society of Diabetes
- 2002 - 2022 Professor of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy
- 2000 - 2022 Chief – Section of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Pisa, Italy
- 1988 - 1990 Associate Professor of Medicine - University of Texas - Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
- 1983 - 1985 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Fields of Scholarship
- Physiology and pathophysiology of beta-cell function
- Physiology and pathophysiology of human intermediary metabolism
- Pathophysiology of Type 2 diabetes
- Treatment and clinical management of Type 2 diabetes
- Chronic complications of type 2 diabetes
- In vivo insulin action and insulin resistance
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Prize of the Italian Society of Diabetology for outstanding scientific activity
- 2008 David Pike and Peter Watkins Visiting Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology, King’s College London, University of London, London, UK
- 2009 11th Ricardo E. Fernando Professorial Lecturer, Manila, Philippines
- 2011 Commander, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2012 Honorary Professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- 2014 Cherubino Order - University of Pisa, Italy
- 2016 26th DMDSC Gold Medal Oration Award, Chennai, India
- 2017 Honorary President of the Italian Society of Diabetes
- 2018 Celso Prize of the Italian Society of Diabetology for outstanding career and contribution to diabetes research
- 2018 Visiting Professor – University of Belgrade – School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2022 10th MDRF Lifetime Contribution Oration Award, Madras, India
