Gaetano Thiene M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Consultant of Cardiovascular Pathology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences at the University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy. He is Deputy Counsellor for the International Imaging and Historical Tradition of the University of Padua, Italy. His research interests have been across the broad fields of Cardiovascular Medicine and Pathology, particularly directed to clinicopathologic studies and clinical translation of basic research. He has published 981 reports of original investigations and reviews in Index leading journals of pathology and cardiovascular medicine, and additionally is co-author and/or co-editor of 20 monographs.