Jorge Amil Dias

Jorge Amil Dias, Portuguese, born in 1954, in Porto, Portugal. Graduated in Medicine in 1977 at Medical School of Porto. Paediatrician and Paediatric Gastroenterologist.
Department of Paediatrics – Centro Hospitalar S. João
4402-451 PORTO
PORTUGAL
jorge.amil@outlook.pt
Present positions:
Head of the Unit of Paediatric Gastroenterology.
Member of the Working Groups on IBD, on Eosinophilic GI Diseases and on Endoscopy of ESPGHAN.
President of the Portuguese College of Paediatrics
General Secretary of ESPGHAN
Consulting Editor for Journal of Food Allergy
Associate Editor of Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases and Frontiers in Pediatric Gastroenterology
Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Associate Editor of JPGN
Associate Editor of Frontier in Pediatrics
Previous scientific and organizational positions:
2015-2018 Member of the Ethics Committee of ESPGHAN
2010-2013 Member of the Committee of Pediatrics of ECCO (PECCO).
2009-2011 Chair of the general Assembly of the Portuguese Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
2006-2009 Member of the Council of the Portuguese College of Pediatric Gastroenterology
2005-2008 President of the Portuguese Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
2003-2006 Membership Secretary of ESPGHAN
2001-2006 President of the Portuguese College of Pediatrics
2005-2012 Treasurer of ESPGHAN
2005-2012 Member of the Committee of Gastroenterology of ESPGHAN
2012-2018 President of the Portuguese College of Paediatric Gastroenterology
Past Chair of the Working Group on Eosinophilic GI Disorders of ESPGHAN
Present research interests:
Acute Diarrhea and rehydration
Inflammatory bowel disease
Eosinophilic oesophagitis
Coeliac disease.