Prof. Carlo Catassi is the director of the Pediatric Clinic of the “G. Salesi children hospital, Ancona, Italy " and is a full Professor of Pediatrics at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy; a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; and the Ex-President of the Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (SIGENP). Prof. Catassi is known for international studies on the epidemiology of celiac disease. Professor Catassi has been contributing to celiac research for 40 years. Professor Catassi has published more than 200 important articles and has an h-index of 62