Professor Paolo Nicola Marino

Medical School at the University of Bologna; graduated (cum laude) in 1972. National Board in Cardiology at the University of Padua in 1975. Clinical fellow c/o Cardiac Dept. Brompton Hospital (London) (December 1975). Research fellow c/o the Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) from August 1985 to May 1987. Since November 1999 he has been Associate Professor in Cardiology at the University of Verona. He has been Member of the National Board of the Italian Society of Cardiology and Chairman of the Working Group on Myocardial Function of European Society of Cardiology. Since December 2004 he has been appointed as Chief of Clinical Cardiology at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, in Novara. Full professor of Cardiology since June 2006 and President of the Italian Society of Cardiology for the years 2009‐2010. Granted within the European Union (FP‐7 Project “MEDIA‐Metabolic Road to Diastolic Heart Failure” Project number 261409) for the years 2010‐2015.