Mauro Bafutto, MD PhD, is currently an Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil. His main research interests are: diverticular disease of the colon; inflammatory bowel disease; inflammation. He has published 50 articles in peer reviewed journals and 35 book chapters. He has presented 180 lectures at national and international congresses.Enio Chaves Oliveira, MD PhD, Chief of the Digestive System Division, Hospital da Clinicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil, is Associate Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil, and Professor at the Post-Graduated Health Science Programme at the same university. His research interests focus on diverticular disease of the colon, enteric nervous system, and inflammation. He authored 80 peer-reviewed articles and 25 book chapters. He has delivered more than 150 lectures in national and international congresses.Antonio Tursi, MD is Chief of the Territorial Gastroenterology Service, Local Sanitary Agency Barletta-Andria-Trani, Andria, Italy and an Associate Professor of Territorial Gastroenterology at the Post-Graduate School of Gastroenterology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy. His main research interests include: diverticular disease of the colon; inflammatory bowel diseases; celiac disease. He has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals (H-index 40) and 14 book chapters. He has presented more than 200 lectures in national and international congresses.Giovanni Brandimarte, MD is Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine and, Gastroenterology, “Cristo Re” Hospital, Rome, Italy. He is an Associate Professor of Psychosomatic Gastroenterology at the Post-Graduate School of Psychosomatic, College Consorsio Humanitas, Rome, Italy. His main research interests focus on: diverticular disease of the colon; celiac disease. He contributed to the fieldwith more than 155 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 125 lectures in national and international congresses.
