Dr. Dimitri Poddighe graduated in 2003 from the medical school of the University of Pavia (Italy) cum laude; here, he also completed the residency/clinical fellowship in Pediatrics, achieving his Specialization Degree cum laude in 2008. During the years of the School of medicine, he was also alumnus at the Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia.
From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Dimitri Poddighe was Research Fellow in Immunology at Children’s Hospital Boston – Harvard University in Boston (MA, USA).
Since 2010, Dr. Dimitri Poddighe served as an attending physician in the pediatric units of several hospitals in Lombardy (Italy), including the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo (Pavia), affiliated to the University of Pavia, where he has been lecturer/instructor at the Department of Pediatrics since 2015.
During his career, Dr. Dimitri Poddighe gained three 2nd level Master Degrees: I) Pediatric Hematology at the Univesity “La Sapienza” in Rome (2010-2011); II) Pediatric Immunology at the University of Pavia (2011-2012); III) Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome (2016-2017). Moreover, in 2015-2016 he also completed a clinical training course in the Pediatric Rheumatology Department at the Istituto G. Pini in Milano.
Dr. Dimitri Poddighe joined the School of Medicine at Nazarbayev University in 2018, as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.
As concern research activity, during his research fellowship in the US, Dr. Dimitri Poddighe worked in the laboratories of the Department of Immunology at Children’s Hospital Boston, where he was involved in basic research projects on respiratory and food allergy by using murine models. In Italy, in addition to his clinical activity at the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Dimitri Poddighe carried on some clinical studies, given his prominent interest in pediatric immunology, rheumatology and allergy.

–  Marseglia GL, Pagella F, Caimmi D, Caimmi S, Castellazzi AM, Poddighe D, Klersy C, Ciprandi G. Increased risk of otitis media with effusion in allergic children presenting with adenoiditis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;138(5):572-5
– Mathias CB, Freyschmidt EJ, Caplan B, Jones T, Poddighe D, Xing W, Harrison KL, Gurish MF, Oettgen HC. IgE influences the number and function of mature mast  cells, but not progenitor recruitment in allergic pulmonary inflammation. J Immunol. 2009; 182(4):2416-24.
– Marseglia GL, Avanzini MA, Caimmi S, Caimmi D, Marseglia A, Valsecchi C, Poddighe D, Ciprandi G, Pagella F, Klersy C, Castellazzi AM. Passive exposure to  smoke results in defective interferon-gamma production by adenoids in children with recurrent respiratory infections. J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2009; 29(8):427-32.
– Marseglia GL, Poddighe D, Caimmi D, Marseglia A, Caimmi S, Ciprandi G, Klersy C, Pagella F, Castellazzi AM. Role of adenoids and adenoiditis in children with allergy and otitis media. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2009; 9(6):460-4.
– Mathias CB, Hobson SA, Garcia-Lloret M, Lawson G, Poddighe D, Freyschmidt EJ, Xing W, Gurish MF, Chatila TA, Oettgen HC. IgE-mediated systemic anaphylaxis and  impaired tolerance to food antigens in mice with enhanced IL-4 receptor signaling. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011;127(3):795-805.
– Poddighe D, Mathias CB, Freyschmidt EJ, Kombe D, Caplan B, Marseglia GL, Oettgen HC. Basophils are rapidly mobilized following initial aeroallergen encounter in naïve mice and provide a priming source of IL-4 in adaptive immune responses. J Biol Regul Homeost Agents. 2014; 28(1):91-103.
– Poddighe D, Cavagna L, Brazzelli V, Bruni P, Marseglia GL. A hyper-ferritinemia syndrome evolving in recurrent macrophage activation syndrome, as an onset of amyopathic juvenile dermatomyositis: a challenging clinical case in light of the current diagnostic criteria. Autoimmun Rev. 2014; 13(11):1142-8.
– Palmieri B, Poddighe D, Vadalà M, Laurino C, Carnovale C, Clementi E. Severe somatoform and dysautonomic syndromes after HPV vaccination: case series and review of literature. Immunol Res. 2017; 65(1):106-116.
– Poddighe D, Vadalà M, Laurino C, Palmieri B. Somatoform and neurocognitive syndromes after HPV immunization are not associated to cell-mediated hypersensitivity to aluminum. Toxicol In Vitro. 2017; 43:58-61.
– De Silvestri A, Capittini C, Poddighe D, Marseglia GL, Mascaretti L, Bevilacqua E, Scotti V, Rebuffi C, Pasi A, Martinetti M, Tinelli C. HLA-DRB1 alleles and juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Diagnostic clues emerging from a meta-analysis. Autoimmun Rev. 2017;16(12):1230-1236.
– De Silvestri A, Capittini C, Poddighe D, Valsecchi C, Marseglia G, Tagliacarne SC, Scotti V, Rebuffi C, Pasi A, Martinetti M, Tinelli C. HLA-DQ genetics in children with Celiac disease: A meta-analysis suggesting a two-step genetic screening procedure starting with HLA-DQ β chains. Pediatr Res. 2017; Epub ahead of print.