Professor Maurizio Pieroni

Dr. Maurizio Pieroni is Professor of Cardiology at University of Florence and Cardiologist at Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy. He graduated from Catholic University cum laude in 1997, specializing in Cardiology cum laude in 2001 at the same Institution. In 2005 he obtained a PhD in human pathology. Dr. Pieroni fields of interest include cardiac pathology and cardiomyopathies, in particular myocarditis, HCM and Fabry disease, He has experience in echocardiography and cardiac MRI interpretation in the field of cardiomyopathies and is skilled in execution and histological evaluation of cardiac biopsy, having contributed to the development of mapping-guided endomyocardial biopsy technique. He is deeply involved in both research and patient management in the fields of lysosomal storage disorders, inherited and acquired cardiomyopathies and channellopathies. Current research is focused on arrhythmic mechanisms and risk stratification in Brugada syndrome, myocarditis and HCM.