Dr. Chiesa obtained his medical degree at the "Sapienza" University of Rome, followed by a residency in Pediatrics (1976-79) and Infectious Diseases (1982-85). He has been Research Fellow at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France; Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y., and Rainbow Babies and Childrens' Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio,U.S.A.; Karolinska Institutet, Stockolm, Sweden. His major areas of research interest relate to emerging Pediatric and Neonatal infectious diseases, diagnostic tools for Neonatal infections, endocrine regulation of fetal/neonatal growth, and energy metabolism in children and metabolic factors contributing atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk in children.