Research Interest: Pulmonary hypertension, animal models, lung injury, genetic polymorphism.

Research Interest:  Adult Cardiac Surgery, Heart Valve Disease, Valve Replacement, Valve RepairLeft Ventricular Remodeling, Cardiomyoplasty, Mechanical Circulatory Assist

Research Interest: Cardiovascular disease, and I am serving on my third ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines committee.

Research Interest: Translational Research of Novel Cardiovascular and Metabolic Biomarkers and their Application to Diagnosis, Treatment and Risk Stratification

Research Interest:  Cardiovascular Reactivity, Cerebrovascular Consequences of Hypertension, Cognitive Impairment, Microcirculation

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.

Research Interest: Hypertension, Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Research Interest: Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology

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: Biomedical Instrumentations; Hemodynamic Parameters; Pulse Wave Velocity; Arterial Pulse Pressure Waveform