Research Interest: Academic Medicine and Cardiovascular Research: Heart Failure, Hypertension, Ventricular Structure and Function, Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Epidemiology

Professor Davide Grassi graduated cum laude in Medicine at the University of Rome. He completed his specialization in Internal Medicine, at the University of L’Aquila, Italy.

Professor Grassi has PhD in Internal Medicine and Immunology, and has masters (MSC) in Ultrasonography in Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, cum laude.

He currently practices with the Division of Internal Medicine and Nephrology – Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention and Nutrition, Metabolsim and cardiovascular prevention Centre at San Salvatore Hospital, L’Aquila, Italy; while he teaches, and works as a research scientist in Internal Medicine at the University of L’Aquila.

Professor Grassi has published and co-authored numerous publications in Hyperuricemia and cardio-metabolic diseases, and recently, he won the national selection for Associate Professor in Internal Medicine in April 2017.

Research Interest: Hypertension; Endothelium; Arterial Stiffness; Metabolism; Metabolic syndrome; Dietary flavonoids; cardiovascular prevention; Uric acid; Nutrition; Nutraceuticals

Research Interest: Hypertension, diabetes complications, biomarkers.

Research Interest: Undernutrition, Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Research Interest: Minerals, Hypertension, Metabolic Disorders, Nutrition, Angiogenesis

Research Interest: Pharmacoeocnomics and Outcome Research, Pharmacoepidemiology and Secondary Data Analysis, Prescribing pattern and drug use safety, International Education.

Research Interest: Kounis Syndrome, Allergic Angina, Allergic Myocardial Infarction

Research Interest:  Acute Coronary Syndrome, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Physiology

Research Interest: Phytoestrogens; Heart Failure; Arterial Hypertension; Randomized Controlled Trials; Meta-Analysis

Research Interest:  Hypertension Research, Devoted to Clinical and Experimental Studies

Research Interest: Kidney and Blood Pressure, Vascular Health and Risk Management, Blood Pressure; Cardiopulmonar, BMC, International Journal of Neurology, Austin Journal of Vascular Medicine

Research Interest:  Cardiac Surgery, Ischemic heart disease, Valvular heart disease, aortic surgery, coronary and non-coronary collateral circulation,   history of medicine

Biography: Marco Picichè (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He has worked as an assistant at Saint Luc Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels (1999–2001), as a "chef de clinique-assistant des hopitaux"  at the universities of Clermont-Ferrand (2003–2004) and Montpellier (2004–2007). He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007). In Canada he authored a research project on ‘‘Noncoronary collateral circulation,’’ which was submitted to the annual research competition at Québec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, and received the competition’s highest grant. In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book : « Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures : research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology » (Springer-Verlag publishing house). Currently he is a consultant cardiac surgeon in Italy.