Professor Alessio Michele Goffredo Aghemo is the Hepatology Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital.

Medical areas of interest

  • liver diseases
  • viral hepatitis
  • metabolic hepatitis
  • liver cirrhosis

Previous experience
From 2007 to 2017 he was the 1st level Medical Director at the U.O of Gastroenterology of the IRCCS Foundation Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan.

Research areas of interest
Clinical and research activity focused on natural history and treatment of viral hepatitis.

He is the author of 155 peer-reviewed publications (Impact Factor total 1151.3, H-Index 25 according to Scopus, H-Index 20 last 5 years Scopus, H-Index 30 according to Google Scholar) (updated September 2017).

From 2013 to 2016, Prof. Aghemo was a scientific member of the governing board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).

Since 2016, he is a member of the scientific committee of the European Association of Gastroenterology (UEG).

Prof. Aghemo is a member of the AISF (Italian Association for the Study of the Liver) commission for antiviral drugs directed against HCV (2012-present). Since 2016 he has been the coordinator of the same.

He is AIFA/EMEA expert for liver disease since 2008.

Member of the Executive Committee of the HCV Regional Network, determined by the Lombardy Region on 28 September 2015.

He participated as an expert in the drafting of the European Guidelines 2013-2014-2015-2016-2017 (EASL) and Italian (AISF) on the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C.

Teaching experience
He is associated professor of Gastroenterology at Humanitas University since September 2017.