Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

Francesco Puppo, MD, was the head of the Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology Unit at San Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy, for 20 years. He obtained his degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Genoa, Italy in 1974, and has also earned specialties in hematology, allergology and clinical immunology. He has published 237 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and has a SCOPUS H-index of 40. He has also delivered 80 oral presentations and 150 congress abstracts.