Prof. Dr. Luisa Vonghia obtained her MD in 2005 and subsequently was trained in Internal Medicine in 2010 at the Catholic University of Rome, Italy.
She was fellow at the Hepatology and Gastroenterology department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, with special focus on MASLD, leading to a Joint PhD between the University of Bari, Italy and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2014. She is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Antwerp. She participates in several clinical trials in MASLD and she is involved in different research consortia supported by the European Commission. Her research is mainly focused on the pathophysiological mechanisms of MASLD, particularly on the metabolic and immunological disorders associated to MASLD.