Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Research in Interventional Cardiology Unit, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy. She is co-Director of the Master in Interventional Cardiology and Adjunct Professor in “Scuola in Malattie dell’Apparato Cardiovascolare” at University Vita e Salute del Monte Tabor –Milan, Italy. She acted a PI, co PI and co-investigator of several investigator driven and/or sponsored national and/or international clinical trials . She has authored/coauthored more than 420 papers, had 17484citations and has an H index= 63 (Author ID: 6603921260). She has won multiple research awards (including Thomas J. Linnemeier Spirit of Interventional Cardiology Young Investigator Award in 2006) She has been co-founder and co-chair of WIN (Women in Innovation) Initiative and and she is currently Treasurer of EAPCI (2020-2022)