Prof Szinnai is Head of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology at University Children’s Hospital Basel (UKBB) and Research Group Leader at the Department of Clinical Research of the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He was trained in Paediatric Endocrinology in Basel, Switzerland and Hôpital Necker, Paris, France. He is Board member of the National Committee for Rare Diseases (KOSEK) in Switzerland. His longstanding research interest are thyroid diseases in childhood with special focus on genetic thyroid diseases as well as individualized pharmacotherapy for patients with thyroid diseases from birth to adulthood. He is Member of the Consensus Guideline Group for Congenital Hypothyroidism of the ENDO-European Reference Network (ERN) Initiative endorsed by the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE), and the European Society for Endocrinology (ESE). He received a Visiting Professorship Grant for Rare Endocrine Diseases from the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) in 2021.