Alessia Gimelli is the clinical lead of the Nuclear Cardiology Unit at Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy, from 2010. She is a cardiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. She has a Masters in Health Management, University of Pisa. Since 2013, she has been leading the quality assurance system for the nuclear medicine department of the FTGM. In October 2019 she won the ESC grant: Women Transforming Leadership Programme (WTLP) run by the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford (UK).
She has deep experience of clinical research on cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular imaging and has contributed to several international high-profile projects.
Dr Gimelli is the EACVI Treasures and member of the ESC Advocacy Committee (2020-2022) and was the EACVI Vice-President and the Chair of Nuclear Cardiology and CT section (2018-2020).