Silvia G. Priori MD, PhD

Dr. Silvia G Priori, M.D., PhD was born in Torino on October 17, 1960. She graduated in Medicine in 1986 at the University of Milan (Italy), and she became specialist in Cardiology in 1990. In 1995 she obtained a PhD in Cardiac Pathophysiology. Currently, she is Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Pavia (Italy), General Scientific Director of the IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Head of the Molecular Cardiology Laboratories at the IRCCS Fondazione S Maugeri. Dr Priori is also Professor of medicine and Director Cardiovascular Genetics Program, at the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology of the New York University, New York, USA. Prof Priori has actively contributed to scientific societies in the field of cardiology and electrophysiology holding leadership positions listed in the honours and awards section. Since 2008 Prof. Priori directs the inherited arrhythmias program at New York University and she is member of the Board and Chairman of the Committee for the Practice Guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology.

Dr Priori is Associate editor of Circulation Research and Member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals including Circulation, European Heart Journal, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Prof Priori has published 357 original articles in international journals and has an H-index of 106.