She graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery in 1994 at the University of Pisa under Prof. A. Pinchera, and then attended the Institute of Endocrinology of the University of Pisa, headed by Prof. Aldo Pinchera and currently by Prof. Ferruccio Santini. In 2000 she specialised with honours in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases.
From 2002 to 2005 she was a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Moléculaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In 2005 she obtained a PhD in Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences at the Institute of Endocrinology of Pisa. From 2002 to 2006 she held a research fellowship.
At the Institute of Endocrinology of Pisa she completed her training as an endocrinologist and then furthered her expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases, with a particular interest in congenital hypothyroidism, nodular thyroid disease and autoimmune thyroid disease. She is experienced in thyroid and neck ultrasound.
In research she has worked in several fields of endocrinology, carrying out basic and clinical research on thyroid physiology and autoimmunity and on thyroid hormone metabolism. She has studied the molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in congenital hypothyroidism, and has experience in molecular biology and in cell biology and biochemistry, with particular attention to G protein-coupled receptors: TSHr, LHr and FSHr.
She is the author of 33 articles published in national and international journals and has taken part in many meetings and congresses in Italy and abroad.
She is a member of the European Thyroid Association (ETA), the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE), the Italian Thyroid Association (AIT) and the Association of Former Students of Pisa Endocrinology.
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