A Commemorative Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Giovanni De Toni: A Pediatrician and Innovator at the Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 101
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2. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Interests: cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases; bone and soft tissue sarcomas; public health
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Dear Colleagues,
Living in Liguria, gathering that the sea may be a metaphor for the human condition is not difficult. The Nobel Prize winner for literature (1975), Eugenio Montale, was born in Genoa in 1896 and spent his childhood and youth between his hometown and the picturesque village of Monterosso, in Cinque Terre. Paraphrasing Mengaldo here, the ego feels almost pulled in by the sea, and simultaneously, it is ejected and confined to the land-dwelling. Montale’s collection “Ossi di Seppia” is an evocation and allegory of the misery and marginalization of the human condition, which moved Giovanni De Toni into action.
Two years before Montale won his Nobel Prize for literature, Giovanni de Toni, an outstanding pediatrician and director of one of the largest children’s hospitals worldwide, passed away. Born in Venice in 1895, Giovanni De Toni was an Italian pediatrician. Known internationally for describing the so-called De Toni–Fanconi–Debré syndrome, he was a prominent figure in Italy, so much so that the Department of Pediatric Sciences of the University of Genoa bears his name. With his wife, Prof. Dr. De Toni also launched the “Villa Santa Chiara” in Genoa to assist disabled children. In 1933, he described a new type of pathology later known as “De Toni–Fanconi–Debré syndrome”. The disease established a cornerstone in vitamin D-resistant rickets. Later, he characterized children affected by hyperosteogenesis and was an authentic innovator in auxologic studies. According to many scholars, De Toni identified a form of infantile cortical hyperostosis, also studied in 1945 by John Caffey and William Silverman (the so-called “Caffey–De Toni disease”). In 1942, Prof. De Toni assumed the director position at the Istituto Gaslini, where he creatively transformed the approach to pediatric healthcare by instituting a free outpatient clinic within the hospital. His prominence rose during the tuberculosis epidemic, as he was the forerunner in detecting a cure with streptomycin. In the 1950s, Giovanni De Toni was remembered as a fervent breastfeeding supporter. On 1 November 1965, the pediatrician left his role at the pediatric institution. He subsequently became president of the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP), a position he held from 1966 to the time of his death in Genoa on 8 January 1973. This Special Issue is dedicated to his legacy at the Gaslini Children’s Hospital and to his descendants, Ettore and Teresa, who followed in his footsteps on the scientific journey.
Prof. Dr. Consolato M. Sergi
Prof. Dr. Angelo Ravelli
Dr. Luca Pio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bone
- soft tissue sarcomas
- neuroblastoma
