Paolo Verdecchia

Dr. Verdecchia is the Director of the Division of Medicine at the Hospital of Assisi, Italy. He was formerly the Vice Director of Cardiology at the General Hospital ‘S. Maria della Misericordia’ in Perugia. He has about 273 scientific articles fully quoted in PubMed (abstracts are excluded) and is the author of several Chapters in Book and a single-author Textbook (in English). He has full papers in Circulation (12 articles), JACC (5 articles), Lancet (7 articles), Hypertension (29 articles), JAMA (1 article), Journal of Hypertension (31 articles) American Journal of Hypertension (18 articles), European Heart Journals (8 articles) and other leading medical journals. He is fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association (Scientific Council for High Blood Pressure Research), the European Society of Cardiology and other National Societies. - Member of the Editorial Board of Circulation as Guest Editor and member of the Editorial Board of other several Scientific Journals including Hypertension, American Journal of Hypertension Journal of Human Hypertension, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Nutrition Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease, Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia (formerly Italian Heart Journal). - Chairman of several multicenter studies in Italy. More than one hundred invited lectures internationally and several hundred lectures in Italy. - Position of Visiting Professor at the McMaster University (Population Health and Research Institute), The Hamilton Hospital, Hamilton, Canada.