Isabella Lupi
She graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pisa in 1998.
Also in Pisa, she attended the Specialisation School in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases directed by Prof. Aldo Pinchera, where she specialised with honours in 2004.
She obtained a PhD with honours in Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences under Prof. Enio Martino in 2008.
From 2005 to 2008 she was a research post-doc fellow in the laboratory directed by Prof. Patrizio Caturegli and Prof. Noel Rose at the Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Since 2010 she has been a consultant physician on a permanent contract in the Endocrinology II Unit of AOUP.
Her clinical research has focused on thyroid and pituitary diseases (pituitary adenomas, Cushing's disease, acromegaly, hyperprolactinaemia) and on autoimmune polyendocrinopathies, with particular dedication to basic research on inflammatory diseases such as autoimmune hypophysitis, hypophysitis secondary to systemic diseases, neuroinfundibulohypophysitis and central diabetes insipidus.
Her research field has recently extended to endocrine diseases caused by immune checkpoint inhibitors. Together with other departments of AOUP, she is part of a team dedicated to the care of cancer patients with endocrine disorders secondary to immunotherapy.
Her current clinical activity includes the inpatient ward of the Endocrinology II Unit and work in the outpatient clinic dedicated to pituitary diseases and autoimmune polyendocrinopathies, the outpatient clinic dedicated to endocrine diseases caused by immunotherapy, and the general outpatient clinic for thyroid diseases.
She is a member of the European Society of Endocrinology and of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. Her scientific publications can be found on PubMed.
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