Skerdi Prifti
Professor
Medical University of Tirana
Albania
Biography
Skerdi Prifti completed MD in 1986 and PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, on 1995. He received two Fulbright Scholarships on 1995 and 2001 at Georgetown University, Washington DC for diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. He has been involved in several international collaboration studies on Helicobacter pylori with Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, University of Bordeaux, France and Naval Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. He was the President of the Albanian Association of Gastrohepatology during 2009-2011. He is the Professor of Medicine since 2011 at the Medical University of Tirana and Chief of Endoscopy Unit at Gastrohepatology Department, University Hospital Mother Theresa, Tirana, Albania. He is the author and co-author of one American and several Albanian textbooks chapters.
Research Interest
Gastrohepatology, Therapeutic endoscopy