Dr. Lorenzo Azzalini is an the Director of Complex Coronary Interventions at VCU Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, USA. He is specialized in complex and high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) and particularly in chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He is member of the editorial board of Eurointervention, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, and Minerva Cardiology and Angiology; and guest reviewer for several other journals, including Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Circulation, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, American Journal of Cardiology, and Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.