Dr. Laura Turco

Biography

Education and trainingDecember 2008 Medical degree (110 cum laude/110)Thesis on: “Treatment of neutropenia secondary to theadministration of Peg-INF withG-CSF in patients with recurrent hepatitis C after OLT”, supervised by Prof G.Mazzella, University of Bologna (Italy)July 2009 Enrolled in the General Medical Council (265/270)July 2016Ongoing (from Nov 2018) Graduation in Gastroenterology (110 cum laude/110)Thesis on: “Progressive Alterations Of Cardiopulmonary Hemodynamics And SystemicInflammation Occur In Patients In Different Stages Of Cirrhosis And Predict Death”, supervised by Prof F. Schepis /E. Villa, University of Bologna (Italy) PhD student in Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Nanomedicine,Medicineand Pharmaceutical Sciences Tutor: Prof. Erica Villa. Work experiences: Sep 2016 – Sep 2020 Researcher at Gastroenterology Unit, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena (Italy), Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Policlinico di Modena, via del Pozzo n 71, 41124 Modena. Sep 2016 – Sep 2020 Medical Doctor at Gastroenterology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Policlinico di Modena, via del Pozzo n 71, 41124 Modena. Referral doctor for the outpatient cirrhotic clinic. Member of the Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory (personally performingsystemic and hepatic hemodynamic assessment in patients with compensated or decompensated cirrhosis, patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, patients suitable for or with Transjugular Porto-Systemic Shunt)Member of the Portal Hypertension team Oct 2015- May 2016 Post-doc Fellow at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA), Digestive Diseases Department. Tutor Dr Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao Jun 2011- Jun 2016 Fellowship at the Gastroenterology Unit, School of Gastroenterology, University of Modena (Italy). Particularly experienced in viral hepatitis treatment and portal hypertension diagnostic management (actively performing HVPG measurement and right heart catheterization at the Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory – Tutor Dr. Filippo Schepis). Apr 2010- Jun 2011 Internship at the Gastroenterology Unit, AOU Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna (Italy) with a financed project on “Retrospective evaluation of retreatment with Peg-IFN and ribavirin in patients with hepatitis C”. Tutor Prof G. Mazzella Dec 2008 – Mar 2010 Internship at the Gastroenterology Unit, AOU Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi,Bologna (Italy) performing clinical activity at the hepatologic outpatients department (viral hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver transplantation ambulatories)



Research Interest's

Gastroenterology/Hepatology