Dr. Fransesco Paolo Russo is an Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology University Hospital Padova. He has completed MEDICAL DEGREE: School of Medicine, University of the Study Padua (Italy), conferred on October 1997 Visiting medical student: Academic Medical Center, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 1996 Visiting medical student: Indiana University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, University Hospital, Indianapolis, USA. August September1995, DIPLOMA: Scientific High School.