Carlo Bellieni

Carlo V. Bellieni (Siena, Italy, 1962- )is an Italian neonatologist and a bioethicist. He served as Secretary of the Bioethics Committee of the Italian Pediatrics Society,. He is also a member of the ethical board of the Siena Biotech research facility, and of the Ethical Board of the Siena University Hospital, where he directs the neonatal intensive therapy unit.
Bellieni is the author of many clinical research papers in international scientific journals, including studies on electromagnetic emission from neonatal incubators and on pain in children, and has written several books in Italian, Spanish, French, and English on neonatal pain and bioethics. He created and developed a new method of nonpharmacological analgesia called "sensorial saturation"reported among the most effective for pain in babies.