
Alberto Orfao, MD, PhD
2023 AIM Virtual Meeting – Keynote Speaker
A. Orfao started active research in mast cell disorders in 1991, together with Dr. Luis Escribano, which led to the foundation of the Spanish Network on Mastocytosis in 2003 and the Reference Center for Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Related Disorders of the Spanish Ministry of Health in 2013; one of the Centers of Excellence of the European Network on Mast Cell Disease (ECMN).
Since 1998 he has led, together with Dr. Luis Escribano and later with Dr. Ival Alvarez-Twose, more than 20 research projects on mast cells and mast cell disorders and has over 100 scientific publications, original research, guidelines, and review papers in professional literature.