Dario R. Sorrentino MD, FRACP

Dario Sorrentino, M.D., is currently a Professor of Medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Director of the IBD Center at Carilion Clinic. He also holds a faculty position at the University of Udine Medical School in Italy.

Dr. Sorrentino earned his medical degree in Italy in 1982. As a medical student, he spent time at King's College and the Royal Free Hospital in London where he was part of a research team under the late Dame Sheila Sherlock. During his training as a gastroenterologist, he later spent time as a research fellow at the Gastroenterology and Liver Unit of the University of California, San Francisco. He obtained his specialization in gastroenterology in 1987 in Italy.

He was later appointed Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai Medical School, New York City in the Divisions of Liver Diseases and Gastroenterology where he spent seven years. During that time he conducted studies in cellular membrane transport and clarified some crucial aspects of the ligand-albumin interaction. Upon his return to Italy at the University of Udine Medical School he was in charge with the Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit of the University Hospital.

He was later appointed Associate Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology and held the Chair of Gastroenterology since 2005. He was also Director of the Residency Program in Gastroenterology in the same medical school. During those years his interests focused on H.pylori infection and autoimmune and neoplastic diseases.