Start Date: 23rd february 2023

DANIELE DE LUCA (MD,PhD)
Chief, Division of Pediatrics, Transportation and Neonatal Critical Care
APHP, Paris Saclay University Hospitals, Medical Center “Antoine Béclère”
Full Professor of Pediatrics 
Paris Saclay Medical School, Paris Saclay University

DANIELE DE LUCA (MD,PhD) is Head of the Pediatric Division, Transportation and Neonatal Critical Care at the APHP, Paris Saclay University Hospitals - Medical Center “Antoine Béclère”. He is an Associate Professor of Neonatology at Paris South Medical School. He is a member of Paris Saclay University Research Team INSERM Unit U999, Physiopathology and Therapeutic Innovation.

His main research fields are: 1) surfactant catabolism and development surfactant protection; 2) clinical development of point of care ultrasound in NICU and PICU; 3) new ventilatory strategies (NAVA and NHFOV) for pediatric and neonatal forms of respiratory failure; 4) epidemiology of neonatal and pediatric ARDS; 5) development of clinical management of neonatal jaundice.

He published 186 papers in extenso. Most of them in journals in the first quartile of the “pediatrics” or “critical care” list. He also authored 19 monographies and chapters in books. He wrote the introduction of 3 monography and gave more than 200 presentations to international meetings/congresses often upon invitation. 

Daniele De Luca also received the Acta Paediatrica Young Investigator award (2007), the Italian National Award for Neonatal Research (2010), the ESPR Young Investigator Award (2010) and the Bengt Robertson Award for Surfactant Research in 2018.