Prof. Dr. Consolato Sergi

Consolato M. Sergi is the Chief of the Anatomic Pathology Division at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and a Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at the University of Alberta and Ottawa, Canada. He obtained his MD degree with honors, with a qualification in pediatrics, and has a Pediatric Pathology Fellowship at the University of Genoa, Italy. He obtained his qualifications in pathology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany, as well as the Clinical Reader title from the University of Bristol, UK. He also has a Ph.D./Habilitation from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, an MPH in Austria, and an FRCPC (Pathology) from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He identified the role of apoptosis in the ductal plate malformation of the liver (Am. J. Pathol. 2000), a new CTL4/Neu1 gene fusion transcript in sialidosis (Hum. Genet. 2001, FEBS Lett. 2002, J. Med. Genet. 2003); two new genes, the WDR62, which encodes a centrosome-associated protein (Nat. Genet. 2010), and OTX2; and mutations that contribute to dysgnathia (J. Med. Genet. 2012), as well as the characteristics of the bile microbiome (Infect. Drug Resist. 2019, HPB (Oxford) 2019, J. Med. Microbiol. 2018, Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., 2018). He is an editor-in-chief and on the editorial board of prestigious medical journals and international agencies.