Dr Giannattasio is a pediatrician with over ten years of experience in the management of pediatric diseases and particular interest in clinical research, as shown by her relevant scientific production. Her main fields of interest are represented by pediatric infectious diseases, gastroenterology and hepatology, but she has also developed skills in neonatology, with particular regard to perinatal infections. Since 2019, and during the whole COVID-19 pandemic, she has worked in the largest pediatric tertiary care center of Southern Italy, facing the challenges deriving form this new pathogen and focusing her research interest particularly on the most severe complication of SARS-CoV-2 in children, namely the multisystem inflammatory syndrome, with several publications in the field.