Cristiano Spada is a Gastroenterologist who completed his residency and fellowship at Catholic University of Rome. He received his PhD in “experimental endoscopy”. He is Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the Catholic University, Rome. 

He is Director of the Digestive Endoscopy Unit and Gastroenterology of the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli, Rome. The Unit performs all the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on the upper, lower GI and biliopancreatic diseases and is a referral Centre for benign and malignant digestive diseases. 

Professor Cristiano Spada specializes in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy with a specific interest in small bowel endoscopy and colonoscopy.  

He is part of the Medical Staff of the European Endoscopy Training Centre (EETC), Catholic University (Gemelli Hospital, Rome), a highly technological and state of the art scientific pole dedicated to training gastroenterologists, endoscopists and surgeons from all over the world. 

Professor Cristiano Spada has a strong global relationship with different institutions and Key Opinion Leaders worldwide, with ongoing faculty exchanges, conferencing, and training courses.

Prof Cristiano Spada is active in several research and educational activities in the field of digestive endoscopy and gastroenterology. He is author of about 150 full papers published in Medline and over 250 abstracts published in National and International conferences.