Ernesto Caffo, M.D., is a full Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Professor Caffo is also President of the Scientific Board of the Post Graduate School in Child Neuropsychiatry and has been Director of the masters' research programs on Evaluation and Intervention in Situations of Child Abuse and Pedophilia. Professor Caffo founded and isis founder and President of the S.O.S Il Telefono Azzurro Onlus, a nonprofit Italian organization that promotes children's rights and fights any kind of abuse and violence against children and adolescents. He is also President of the Foundation Child for Study and Research into Childhood and Adolescence, and he is Director of Iinternational tTraining Rresearch Sseminars in the field of children's and adolescents' mental health.child and adolescent psychiatry. Professor Caffo is past president of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) and has beenis a member of the board of directors of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) since 2008. In 2018, he became a steering committee member of child protection association the Child Dignity Alliance and was appointed by Pope Francis appointed as a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Examines the modern pandemic of online child sexual exploitation (OCSE)

Discusses OCSE from multiple perspectives, including neuropsychological, epidemiological, biological, and behavioral

Addresses the physical and mental impacts of early exposure to pornography

Explores the neurobiology and epigenetic impacts of trauma

Describes prevention and early intervention strategies, including scalable technological responses