Role
Director of the Department of Interventional Cardiology and Heart Defects and of the Monzino Women's Hospital at the Monzino Cardiology Center IRCCS in Milan
Bio
After graduating and specializing in Cardiology at the University of Milan, she completed a fellowship in intracoronary imaging at Washington Hospital Center (USA). At the Monzino Cardiology Center (IRCCS), she directs the Department of Coronary, Peripheral, and Heart Failure Interventional Cardiology and founded the Monzino Women Heart Center, the first Italian center dedicated to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in women.
A specialist in interventional cardiology and a lecturer at the University of Milan, she has held positions at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, contributing to the drafting of the ministerial plan for the application of gender-specific medicine . Her research ranges from cardioprotective strategies in heart attacks, to antiplatelet therapy, to the pathophysiological correlation between foramen ovale and migraine with aura, and to the use of gender-specific preventive medicine in cardiovascular diseases.
During the COVID-19 emergency, she studied the impact of the infection on the cardiovascular system, analyzing the specificities of COVID-19 and gender medicine, and the management of complications such as COVID-19 and acute coronary syndromes. A member of the ESC, ACC, and EAPCI, she was awarded the Rosa Camuna Prize by the Lombardy Region.