Professor Gianluigi Savarese

Gianluigi Savarese is currently Professor of Cardiology at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden) where he is the Head of the Heart Failure and Arrhythmia Research at the Department of Clinical Science and Education. He is also Senior Consultant for Heart Failure at the Southern Hospital in Stockholm. Over the last few years, he has published >450 articles on top peer-reviewed journals. Major focus of his research is on heart failure, with a particular interest in implementing use of guidelines recommended treatments, and phenotyping heart failure for improving clinical trial design. He is heavily involved in registry studies (Swedish Heart Failure Registry, ESC registries) and clinical trials, and he is expert in meta-analysis and big data analysis. He is President-Elect of the Heart Failure Association of ESC (2026-2028), and has previously been Secretary. Among others, he is Deputy Editor of EJHF, EHJ-Open, and EHJ-VSHD.