Cristina Stasi is an Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the Link Campus University in Rome as of November 25, 2024. She is a medical consultant at the Regional Health Agency of Tuscany in Florence, Italy. In 2001, Cristina Stasi graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy. In 2002, she received an award from Accademia Lancisiana for her scientific work on Crohn's disease. In 2006, she specialized in Gastroenterology at the University of Pisa with an experimental thesis on the role of the brain–gut axis in the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome. In 2013, she earned her PhD in Experimental and Clinical Medicine at the University of Florence with a thesis “Validation and Development of Non-Invasive Methods for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Liver Fibrosis". Until 2023, she worked at the MASVE Interdepartmental Hepatology Center, University of Florence, Center for Research and Innovation CRIA-MASVE, AOU Careggi, Florence. In 2023/24, she was a temporary research fellow at the University of Siena, Italy. Her skills and expertise include non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis, viral hepatitis, liver diseases, epidemiology, and bidirectional interactions between gut–brain, gut–liver, and liver–brain axes. She is on the list of the Top Italian Women Scientists. She is the author of 110 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields (source from ResearchGate).