MENTOR`S BACKGROUND

Languages: English, Italian Prof. Di Renzo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Perugia in Italy. He is Director of both the Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine Center in Perugia and Founder of the Permanent International and European School of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine (PREIS) in Florence ( www.preischool.com ). He is full Professor at the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the I.M. Sechenov First State University of Moscow since 2019. He is coordinating the Women’s Library ( GLOWM ) Educational platform of FIGO after being General Secretary for two terms (2012-2018) . He is Secretary General of the New European Surgical Academy (NESA) since 2010 and Past General Secretary of FIGO. He holds multiple other positions including Founder & Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, based in London, corresponding Editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Editor in Chief of the Chinese Journal (in English language) “Maternal Fetal-Medicine”. He was an Advisory Board Member for the March of Dimes Foundation based in New York. Further, he is honorary member of 42 different scientific Societies among which a Fellow ad eundem of RCOG and a Honorary Fellow of American ACOG and of Indian ICOG. He is also member of the WHO Strategic Committee on “Maternal and Perinatal health”. Prof. Di Renzo is an Honorary Professor and Doctor Honoris Causa in Medicine and Surgery at respectively 15 and 6 different Universities throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. He is an Academic Member of the Romanian and Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Di Renzo has received six awards for his work in human reproduction and maternal-infant's health, scientific research, and teaching. He has organised more than 400 international congresses and courses, some of these are held regularly (Diabetes in Pregnancy: DIP, Birth, World Congress of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, TWINS, etc). His scientific production comprises over 1,500 papers of which more than 450 have been published in peer reviewed international journals (HI 51) and more than 100 books. He has been an invited speaker in over 1,500 national and international congresses and meetings and in academic courses in over 115 countries.