Editorial Board

Cardiology

Editors-in-Chief

Domenico Galzerano
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre and Alfaisal University, College of Medicine
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Affiliate Partners Harvard Medical International, Riyadh, (KSA); Consultant Cardiology, The Heart Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, (KSA), Deputy Director, Cardiology Clerkship, College of Medicine  Alfaisal University (KSA) ; Joint Professor, Cardiovascular Translational Research, Department of Cell Biology, Research and Innovation Center, Riyadh (KSA). Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology; Fellow of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. Fellow Italian Society of Cardiology. Clinical and academic cardiologist with international experience in cardiovascular medicine and cardiac imaging. Multimodality and interventional imager with extensive experience in echocardiography in clinical and research arenas. Pioneer of three-dimensional echocardiography, he continues to improve its use until the latest evolution. He started to be involved in the 3D echocardiography and imaging arena in 1995 at Tufts University, Boston,  (USA),  where he worked in clinical and research setting. 2024 Google scholar: 148 articles,  H index 21, i10-index 35.  Speaker/chairman at most important international cardiology  Conferences. Reviewer:  ESC Heart Failure, J Am Soc of Echocardiography, JACC, JACC case reports, Am J Hypert, Cardiovasc thera., JRAAS, Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine,  J Hum Hypert, Echo Research and Practice, European J of Echocard, EHJCV, Journal of Cardiovascular Echography, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Global Cardiology. Institutional affairs committee and senior worthy member Italian Society of Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Imaging.
E-mail: dgalzerano@kfhrc.edu.sa | ORCID

Maurizio Volterrani
San Raffaele IRCCS
Rome, Italy

Prof. Volterrani obtained his MD degree and cardiology specialization at the University of Brescia, while his PhD was obtained at the University of Cagliari. His main research interests include heart failure, exercise training in cardiac rehabilitation, telemedicine, hyperkalemia and kidney failure, and, recently, artificial intelligence. He is and has been the national lead as well as the principal investigator of multiple international clinical trials mainly related to heart failure and his other field of interest. He is a Board Member and Fellow of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and has held the positions for the 2022-2024 term as Secretary of the HFA Board, chairperson of the HFA Study Group on Exercise Physiology and Training, chairperson of the HFA Membership Committee, chairperson of the HFA ICARe-HF Committee, and member of the HFA Committee Advocacy Regulatory Affair, HFA Committee Education, HFA Committee Digital Health & Patient Care, ESC Digital Health committee. For the 2024-2026 term, he has been appointed as Chair of the HFA Committee on Digital Health and Telemonitoring, HFA ICARe (Quality of Care Centers) Committee. In 2020-2022, he was a member of the ESC Task Force for the Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmia and Prevention of Sudden Death, and in 2022-2024, he was a member of the ESC Guideline Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension. Volterrani is also the President of the Italian Society for Heart Failure, National Governor of ISCP – International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, a member of the Italian Ministry of Health Network for IRCCS Cardiology Research Hospitals and an expert in the Scientific Advisor Group for the European Medicines Agency. Finally, he is Associated Editor of the European Journal of Heart Failure, ESC Heart Failure, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Global Cardiology, Member of the Editorial Board of the Cardiac Failure Review, Reviewer for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Nature Medicine, Cocharne, European Heart Journal, European Journal of Heart Failure, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and Reviewer Editor for Frontiers in Physiology and Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. His current H-Index is 57 (Scopus) and has authored over 280 articles.
E-mail: maurizio.volterrani@sanraffaele.it | ORCID

Associate Editors
Piergiuseppe Agostoni, University of Milan, Italy
E-mail: piergiuseppe.agostoni@unimi.it | ORCID

Khaled Al-Kattan, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
E-mail: kkattan@alfaisal.edu | ORCID

Stefan Anker, German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Berlin, Germany
E-mail: s.anker@cachexia.de | ORCID

Francesco Barilla, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy
E-mail: francesco.barilla@uniroma1.it | ORCID

Francesco A. Benedetto, Ospedali riuniti "Bianchi-Melacrino", Reggio Calabria, Italy
E-mail: frank.benedetto@ospedalerc.it | ORCID

Eduardo Bossone, Antonio Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy
E-mail: eduardo.bossone@aocardarelli.it | ORCID

Leonardo Calò, Casilino Polyclinic, Rome, Italy
E-mail: leonardocalo.doc@gmail.com | ORCID

Giuseppe Caminiti, S. Raffaele IRCCS, Rome, Italy
E-mail: giuseppe.caminiti@sanraffaele.it | ORCID

Antonio Cittadini, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
E-mail: cittadin@unina.it | ORCID

Andrew J.S. Coats, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
E-mail: ajscoats@aol.com | ORCID

Giovanni Di Salvo, Padua University Hospital, Italy
E-mail: giovanni.disalvo@unipd.it | ORCID

Alfonso Galati, Villa Betania Nursing Home, Rome, Italy
E-mail: alfonsogalati@gmail.com | ORCID

Ferdinando Iellamo, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
E-mail: iellamo@uniroma2.it | ORCID

Roberto Lo Russo, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands
E-mail: roberto_lorusso@iol.it | ORCID

Giuseppe Marazzi, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
E-mail: marazzig@gmail.com | ORCID

Marco Metra, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
E-mail: marco.metra@unibs.it | ORCID

Rocco Mollace, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
E-mail: rocco.mollace@gmail.com | ORCID

Luca Monzo, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
E-mail: l.monzo@chru-nancy.fr | ORCID

N. Pandian, Newport Beach, USA
E-mail: n.pandian@gmail.com

Marco Alfonso Perrone, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
E-mail: marco.perrone@uniroma2.it | ORCID

Giuseppe Rosano, St George's University, London, UK
E-mail: grosano@sgul.ac.co.uk | ORCID

Michele Senni, A.O. Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
E-mail: msenni@asst-pg23.it | ORCID

Editorial Board
Stefano Bergonzini, USL Umbria 2, Narni (TR), Italy
Roberto Caruso, F. Scalabrino GIOMI Institute, Messina, Italy
Claudio Ceconi, Poliambulatorio Motusmed, Brescia, Italy
Massimo Cerulli, Ospedale Privato Villa Pineta, Modena, Italy
Michele Ciccarelli, University of Salerno, Italy
Gennaro Cice, Policlinico Casilino, Rome, Italy
Paolo Colonna, Policlino of Bari, Italy
Nicola Cosentino, Casa di Cura "S. Rita", Cirò Marina, Italy
Laura D’Erasmo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Giovanna Di Giannuario, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy
Sara Di Michele, San Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Diaferia, PPA ASL BT Hospital, Canosa di Puglia (BT), Italy
Galal El Din Nagib Elkilany, Gulf Medical University and Saudi German Hospitals, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Cosimo Fulgione, S. Gennaro Hospital, Naples, Italy
Michele Gabriele, A. Ajello Hospital, Mazara del Vallo (TP), Italy
Abdulhalim Jamal Kinsara, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Rocco Lagioia, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Bari, Italy
Mario Mallardo, "San Gennaro" Hospital, Naples, Italy
Roberto Marini, Policlinico Triestino Salus, Trieste, Italy
Anna Maria Martino, Policlinico Casilino, Rome, Italy
Bruna Miserrafiti, Tiberio Evoli Hospital, Melito di Porto Salvo, Italy
Leopoldo Pagliani, High Specialization Rehabilitation Hospital, Motta di Livenza (TV), Italy
Pietro Palermo, Centro Cariologico Monzino, Milan, Italy
Vito Maurizio Parato, Madonna del Soccorso Hospital, S. Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
Cristian Parisi, Policlinico Casilino, Rome, Italy
Andrea Passantino, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Cassano (BA), Italy
Valeria Pergola, University of Padua, Italy
Rossella Petacchi, "San Bartolomeo" Hospital, Sarzana (SP), Italy
Mara Piccoli, Policlino "Luigi di Liegro”, Rome, Italy
Gennaro Ratti, S. Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Naples, Italy
Antonella Rossetti, Santo Spirito Hospital, Rome, Italy
Maurizio Santomauro, University Hospital "Federico II", Naples, Italy
Luca Sgorbini, Villa Betania Nursing Home, Rome, Italy
Francesco Uras, Hospital of Sassari, Italy
Carmine Vecchione, University of Salerno, Italy
Carmine Dario Vizza, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Olga Vriz, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

Pneumology

Editor-in-Chief

Antonio Spanevello
ICS Maugeri IRCCS
Tradate, Italy

Antonio Spanevello is a Full Professor at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of Insubria University, Italy. He is the Director of the Department of Medicine and Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Director of the Respiratory Unit of the Tradate IRCCS (Varese) of the Maugeri Clinical and Scientific Institutes. His main area of research is inflammation in airway diseases. He has been and still is involved in a variety of clinical and translational research on the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of chronic airway diseases, principally with human studies to explore the role of inflammation assessed with non-invasive techniques. He has held numerous positions for the European Respiratory Society since 2003 and has been a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS) since 2015. He is a member of various international Editorial Boards.
E-mail: antonio.spanevello@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Deputy Editors

Nicolino Ambrosino
Auxilium Vitae
Volterra, Italy
E-mail: n.ambrosino@ao-pisa.toscana.it | ORCID

Pasquale Ambrosino
ICS Maugeri IRCCS
Telese Terme (BN), Italy
E-mail: pasquale.ambrosino@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Matteo Gelardi
University of Foggia
Foggia, Italy 
E-mail: matteo.gelardi@unifg.it | ORCID

Rossana Giancaspro
University of Foggia
Foggia, Italy 
E-mail: rossana.giancaspro@unifg.it | ORCID

Uzzam Ahmed Khawaja
Jinnah Medical and Dental College
Karachi, Pakistan
E-mail: uzzamahmedkhawaja@gmail.com | ORCID

Mauro Maniscalco
ICS Maugeri IRCCS
Telese Terme (BN), Italy
E-mail: mauro.maniscalco@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Pierluigi Paggiaro
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy
E-mail: pierluigi.paggiaro@unipi.it | ORCID

Paola Pierucci
Ospedale Miulli, Acquaviva delle Fonti; Libera Università Mediterranea (LUM), Casamassima, Italy
E-mail: pierucci@lum.it | ORCID

Claudio Sorino
Sant'Anna Hospital
Como, Italy
E-mail: claudio.sorino@asst-lariana.it | ORCID

Dina Visca
ICS Maugeri IRCCS
Tradate, Italy
E-mail: dina.visca@uninsubria.it | ORCID

Michele Vitacca
ICS Maugeri IRCCS
Lumezzane, Italy
E-mail: michele.vitacca@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

 

Associate Editors

Walter Ageno, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
E-mail: walter.ageno@uninsubria.it | ORCID

Andrea Bianco, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
E-mail: andrea.bianco@unicampania.it | ORCID

Alberto Braghiroli, ICS Maugeri, Veruno, Italy
E-mail: alberto.braghiroli@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Gaetano Caramori, University of Parma, Italy
E-mail: gaetano.caramori@unipr.it | ORCID

Mauro Carone, ICS Maugeri, Cassano delle Murge, Italy
E-mail: mauro.carone@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Mario Cazzola, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
E-mail: mario.cazzola@uniroma2.it | ORCID

Stefano Centanni, University of Milan, Italy
E-mail: stefano.centanni@unimi.it | ORCID

Enrico Clini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
E-mail: enrico.clini@unimore.it | ORCID

Marco Confalonieri, Giuliano Isontina University Hospital,Trieste, Italy
E-mail: marco.confalonieri@asugi.sanita.fvg.it | ORCID

Lorenzo Corbetta, University of Florence, Italy
E-mail: lorenzo.corbetta@unifi.it | ORCID

Nunzio Crimi, University of Catania, Italy
E-mail: crimi@unict.it | ORCID

Fabiano Di Marco, Milan, Italy
E-mail: fabiano.dimarco@unimi.it | ORCID

Giuseppe Di Maria, University of Catania, Italy
E-mail: giuseppe.dimaria@unict.it

Lorenzo Dominioni, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
E-mail: lorenzo.dominioni@uninsubria.it

Leonardo Fabbri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
E-mail: leonardo.fabbri@unimore.it | ORCID

Maria Pia Foschino Barbaro, University of Foggia, Italy
E-mail: mariapia.foschino@unifg.it | ORCID

Stefano Gasparini, Ospedali Riuniti Torrette di Ancona, Italy
E-mail: stefano.gasparini@ospedaliriuniti.marche.it | ORCID

Sergio Harari, San Giuseppe Hospital Milan, Italy
E-mail: sharari@hotmail.it | ORCID

Mirco Lusuardi, Local Health Unit of Reggio Emilia, Italy
E-mail: mirco.lusuardi@ausl.re.it | ORCID

Giovanni Battista Migliori, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Tradate, Italy
E-mail: giovannibattista.migliori@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Stefano Nava, University of Bologna, Italy
E-mail: stefano.nava@unibo.it | ORCID

Alberto Papi, University of Ferrara, Italy
E-mail: ppa@unife.it | ORCID

Girolamo Pelaia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy
E-mail: pelaia@unicz.it | ORCID

Venerino Poletti, Morgagni - Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy
E-mail: venerino.poletti@gmail.com | ORCID

Alessandro Sanduzzi Zamparelli, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
E-mail: sanduzzi@unina.it | ORCID

Claudio Tantucci, University of Brescia, Italy
E-mail: claudio.tantucci@unibs.it | ORCID

Editorial Board

Stefano Aliberti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Elena Bacci, AOU Pisana, Pisa, Italy
Bianca Beghé, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Fulvio Braido, University of Genoa, Italy
Caterina Bucca, University of Turin, Italy
Cecilia Calabrese, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
Antonella Caminati, San Giuseppe Hospital, Milan, Italy
Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano, University of Foggia, Italy
Piero Ceriana, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Pavia, Italy
Marco Contoli, University of Ferrara, Italy
Angelo Corsico, University of Pavia, Italy
Claudia Crimi, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy
Vito D'Agnano, University College London Respiratory - Lungs for Living Research Centre, London, UK
Roberto Walter Dal Negro, National Center for Pharmaco-Economics and Respiratory Pharmacoepidemiology Verona, Italy
Francesco Dentali, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Paola Faverio, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Annalisa Frizzelli, University of Parma, Italy
Lucia Iannuzzi, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari, Italy
Andrea Imperatori, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Federico Lavorini, University of Florence, Italy
Maria Majori, University Hospital of Parma, Italy
Mario Malerba, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Maria Gabriella Matera, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
Gennaro Mazzarella, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
Federica Meloni, Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
Claudio Micheletto, Mater Salutis Hospital, Legnago, Italy
Mattia Nigro, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy
Raffaella Pagliaro, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
Vincenzo Patruno, University Hospital of Udine, Italy
Alberto Pesci, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Aldo Pezzuto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Patrizia Pignatti, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Pavia, Italy
Laura Pini, University of Brescia, Italy
Federico Raimondi, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
Fabio Luigi Massimo Ricciardolo, University of Turin, Italy
Paola Rogliani, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
Micaela Romagnoli, Hospital of Treviso, Italy
Nicola Rotolo, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Carlo Sacco, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Veruno, Italy
Stefano Sanduzzi Zamparelli, A. Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy
Pierachille Santus, University of Milan, Italy
Nicola Scichilone, University of Palermo, Italy
Sara Solveig Fois, University Hospital of Sassari, Italy
Ahmad Mohammad Abdo Kheder Shaddad, Assiut University, Egypt
Giovanni Sotgiu, University of Sassari, Italy
Paolo Spagnolo, University of Padua, Italy
Alessandro Squizzato, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Claudio Tirelli, University of Milan, Italy
Rocco Trisolini, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Carlo Vancheri, University of Catania, Italy
Alessandro Vatrella, University of Salerno, Italy
Patrizio Vitulo, ISMETT - Italian Ministry of Health, Palermo, Italy

Physiotherapy

Deputy Editors

Gabriela Ferreyra, University of Turin, Italy
E-mail: gabriela.ferreyra@unito.it
Dr. Gabriela Ferreyra obtained her “Kinesiologia and Fisiatria” 5-year degree from Buenos Aires National University, Argentina. She completed her training to become a cardio-respiratory physiotherapist with the College of Physiotherapy of Buenos Aires. Then, she completed her 1-year fellowship on mechanical ventilation and clinical research at Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. In 2005, she finished her studies as a “Respiratory Therapist” approved by the American Board for Professional Certification in Respiratory Therapy (LABPCRT), United States of America. Her life work practice in different countries (Argentina, USA, Germany, and Italy) has been mainly dedicated to patients in the intensive care unit, weaning from mechanical ventilation and non-invasive ventilation. She is specialized in the measurement of respiratory muscles through different techniques, such as the measurement of transdiaphragmatic pressures, electrical activity of the diaphragm, ventilators and ventilatory modes, and measurement of electrical impedance of the lung to identify the atelectasis zones to improve treatment and patient outcomes. In recent years, she has also been working with children with chronic disease and cardiorespiratory problems on the evaluation of the complete cardiopulmonary test and measurement of improvement before and after specific treatment with different new techniques in the Children's Hospital, Turin, Italy. She has written book chapters and reviews on postoperative complications, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and non-invasive ventilation. She published numerous articles in different international respiratory journals. Her interests are more in the research field of new technology to progress on the improvement of diagnosis and improvements of respiratory muscles. Her professional activities also include the reviewing of scientific manuscripts for high-impact journals such as Anaesthesiology, Anaesthesia & Analgesia, BMC Anaesthesiology, and the European Journal of Medical Research. She is currently based in Turin as the clinical coordinator on different international projects on mechanical ventilation at the University of Turin, Italy, in collaboration with Western Ontario University, Canada.

Simone Gambazza, University of Milan, Italy
E-mail: simone.gambazza@unimi.it | ORCID
Simone Gambazza is a research fellow in Medical Statistics at Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI, Milan, Italy). He holds a background in physiotherapy and cognitive science, and he specialized in epidemiology at UNIMI and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health (New York, US). He plays a key role in statistical analysis within multidisciplinary statistics teams, contributing to various fields of medicine, including epigenetics, respiratory medicine, and rehabilitation.

Mara Paneroni, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Lumezzane, Italy
E-mail: mara.paneroni@icsmaugeri.it | ORCID

Associate Editors

Miguel Gonçalves, University of Porto, Portugal
E-mail: goncalvesmr@gmail.com | ORCID

George Ntoumenopoulos, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
E-mail: george.ntoumenopoulos@svha.org.au | ORCID

Emilia Privitera, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Italy
E-mail: emilia.privtera@gmail.com | ORCID

Editorial Board

Tiina Andersen, Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Norway
Arzu Ari, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Raffaella Bellini, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata di Verona, Italy
Angela Bellofiore, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Italy
Cristian Gabriel Benay, Bernardino Rivadavia Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anna Brivio, Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Paolo Buonpensiero, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Clizia Cazzarolli, University of Verona, Italy
Francesco D'Abrosca, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Italy
Pamela Frigerio, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Barbara Garabelli, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Andrea Lanza, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Marta Lazzeri, Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda, Milan, Italy
Giulia Mamprin, AULSS 2, Treviso, Italy
Sara Mariani, Milan, Italy
Elena Repossini, Fondazione "Don Gnocchi", Istituto Palazzolo, Milan, Italy
Veronica Rossi, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Pavia, Italy
Antonella Sanniti, Casa di Cura Ancelle della Carità di Cremona, Cremona, Italy
Martina Santambrogio, University of Milan, Italy
Carla Simonelli, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Lumezzane, Italy
Maurizio Sommariva, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Elisabetta Zampogna, ICS Maugeri IRCCS, Tradate, Italy
M.I. Zanetti Feltrim, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Chairman

G. Cerri, Varese, Italy

Managing Editor

L.M. Esposito, Pavia, Italy