Salvatore Oliva

Salvatore Oliva, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Maternal and Child Health Department of Sapienza University of Rome, and a consultant pediatric gastroenterologist at Umberto I University Hospital in Rome. His clinical and research efforts have been centered primarily on pediatric gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), gastrointestinal endoscopy, and eosinophil-associated gastrointestinal disorders. He has extensively studied the disease mechanism of pediatric IBD with translational research, including genetic, immunological, and gut microbiota interactions, and he is a leading researcher in the field of pan-enteric capsule endoscopy in Crohn’s disease. 

A member of the European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Prof. Oliva is involved in the work of its Endoscopy Working Group, Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Working Group, and IBD Interest Group, as well as in coordinating the European Pediatric Registry of Eosinophilic Esophagitis and the Pediatric Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Biobank on behalf of ESPGHAN. He also serves as Pediatric Officer on the Steering Committee of the European Society for Eosinophilic Oesophagitis. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 book chapters and 120 peer-reviewed articles and has received a Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers Training Award.