Valeria Calcaterra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pavia, and a Pediatrician at the Department of Pediatrics, Buzzi Children’s Hospital, Milan, Italy. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pavia and completed her residency cum laude in Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatric Science at Pavia University. Her research interests include pediatric endocrinology and diabetology, auxology, immunology and autoimmunity, diabetes mellitus, pediatric obesity and metabolic complications, bariatric surgery in young patients, malnutrition, thyroid autoimmune disease, disorders of puberty, congenital and rare diseases, and translational research.