Circadian rhythms in liver disease

Hosted by Christopher Rose (University of Montreal)

Sara Montagnese is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at Padova University Hospital in Italy and a Professor of Chronobiology plus Chronobiology Section Lead at the University of Surrey in the UK.
She has a longstanding clinical and research interest in hepatic encephalopathy, a cerebral complication of liver disease, on which she has published extensively, especially in relation to diagnosis and differential diagnosis. She is the Past President of the International Society for Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism (ISHEN) and Vicepresident and President Elect of the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS). She is Associate Editor and Special Section Editor (Snapshots) of the Journal of Hepatology, and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Physiology – Chronobiology. She has also been part of the Editorial Boards of Hepatology and BMJ-Open Gastroenterology.
She also has a research interest in the sleep-wake disturbances exhibited by patients with cirrhosis, and she has made significant contributions to their understanding and treatment. She is currently using her experience in the liver field as a model and applying it to several other areas of medicine. In addition, she is working on the management of hospitalisation-related sleep-wake and circadian abnormalities, and on the definition of patient-specific tools for circadian assessment. Her research has been funded by the European Association for the Study of the Liver, the University of Padova, the CaRiPaRo foundation, the Italian Ministry of Health, and the EU-H2020.