Luigi P Badano

Prof. Badano currently serves as both a Full Professor of cardiovascular medicine and coordinator of the Ph.D. course in Public Health at the University of Milano Bicocca (Milan, Italy), as well as director of the integrated cardiovascular diagnosis unit at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Prof. Badano’s clinical interests include native and prosthetic valvular heart disease, right ventricular and atrial function, with research interests in three-dimensional and deformation imaging echocardiography and cardiac mechanics.

Prof. Badano is a member of the Italian Society of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, American College of Cardiology, and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE). He is also a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology. Prof. Badano is a regular invited speaker at major international cardiology meetings as well as at annual ESC, ACC, ASE and EuroEcho scientific meetings.

He has 388 peer-reviewed publications (current Scopus h-index=85), authored 9 books about echocardiography and cardiovascular imaging. Prof. Badano has been listed among the highly cited researchers from 2018 to 2021 by Clarivate-Web of Science for producing multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for their field and year. Prof. Badano served as President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging from 2010 to 2012. He is an honorary member of the Hungarian, Romanian, and Korean Societies of Cardiology. He is also an honorary Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography, the British Society of Echocardiography, and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. In 2013, he was awarded the Silver Medal of the European Society of Cardiology for his clinical and research activities and his commitment as President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.