Ornella Leone MD

Ornella Leone, MD, is Head of the Cardiovascular and Cardiac Transplant Pathology Unit at Sant’Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy. From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Leone was President of the Italian Association for Cardiovascular Pathology. She has also served the Society of Cardiology as Coordinator of the Council of Directors for the Cardiovascular Anatomy and Pathology Group (2006-8) and Member of the Council of Directors of the Myocardial Disease Group (2012-4). Dr. Leone is a Founding Member of the Cardiovascular Anatomy and Pathology Group in the Italian Society of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Pathology Group in the Italian Society of Pathology. She is a frequently invited speaker at national and international meetings and is the author of 93 journal articles, mostly in peer-reviewed journals.