Portal Hypertension VII

Roberto de Franchis is an Emeritus Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Milan and a Senior Consultant at the Unità Operativa di Gastroenterologia ed Endoscopia Digestiva at Istituto di Cura Città di Pavia, Pavia, Milan, Italy. He has published widely in the fields of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in major medical and hepatology journals. Every five years since 1990 he has organized the International Consensus Workshop on Definitions, Methodology, and Therapeutic Strategies in Portal Hypertension in Baveno, Italy. He is an elected Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Fegato, and of the Società Italiana di Gastroenterologia. Dr. De Franchis is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Digestive and Liver Disease. He is the Co-Founder of ECCO: European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization, and received the 2015 EASL Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Hepatology.