Michele Emdin MD, PhD

Dr. Michele Emdin, MD, Ph.D, is a Professor of Cardiology at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. Since December 2019, and an Associate Professor since 2015, as well as of Pathophysiology and Diagnostics at the Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy, Director of the Cardio-thoracic Department and Chief of Cardiology at Foundation G. Monasterio, a large reference research hospital, focused on heart diseases in Tuscany. He graduated from Pisa and Milan University with MD and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Ph.D. degrees in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He received Cardiovascular Medicine and Nuclear Medicine Specialty degrees in 1987 and in 1997 at Pisa University, respectively, and a Master's degree in Health service management in 2009 at the Sant'Anna School. He worked as an Intern and Resident in Cardiology at the Institute of Clinical Physiology, Italian National Research Council studying the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease, and the neuroendocrine control of the cardiovascular system in collaboration with the MIT in Boston and other international research groups (1983- 2007), and afterward at FTGM, where he has directed up to now a strong group of young Cardiologists/Researchers in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

His current clinical interest covers the spectrum of medical management of cardiovascular diseases, with a focus on heart failure, and his research interests focus mostly on biomarkers, etiology, and phenotypes of cardiomyopathies, cardio-respiratory interactions, neuroendocrine control of the cardiovascular system, pathophysiology and clinical aspects of heart failure, including diagnostic, therapeutic and general management issues.