Biography

Born in Florence on October 4th 1965.

Dr. Sangiorgi is a graduate of the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1990. He is Board Certified in Cardiology (1994) and in Surgical Pathology (1999).

He is a Fellow of the Italian Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the American Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention, The Italian Society of Interventional Cardiiology. He is also a member of the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology and Coronary Circulation of the European Society of Cardiology. He is onorary member of the Romanian Society of Cardiology

He served as a Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, USA from 1992 to 1998 and became Research Associate in Interventional Cardiology with Dr. Robert S. Schwartz.

Dr. Sangiorgi was a finalist in the "Young Investigators Award" of the American College of Cardiology and won the first place in the "Young Investigators Award" of the Italian Society of Cardiology for the identification of a new serologic marker of plaque vulnerability in the carotid district.

He relocated to Milan in 1998 and became Senior Staff member in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan, where he practiced coronary, carotid and peripheral interventional procedures. From 1998 he is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome and from 2005 to 2008 he has been Director of the Interventional Cardiology Program at the same University.

Dr. Sangiorgi also joined Centro Cuore Columbus and San Raffaele Hospital at the beginning of 2003 as Associate Clinical Director and Clinical Research Director. He has been responsible for the peripheral program in San Raffaele Hospital. In 2004 he became Medical Director of Mediolanum Cardiovascular Research, an independent CRO performing clinical trials in cardiovascular medicine. From January 2009 to April 2011 he has been the Director of the Cath Lab of the University Hospital of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He relocated at the University of Rome in May 2011 and he has worked as consultant at the Hospital Casilino and at the Clinical Cardiologic Institute. He is a contract Professor at the University of Sassari for the Peripheral Interventional Program and for Cardiovascular Interventional Pathology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

He has been part of the Board of Director of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology and he is Vice-President of the Italian of Society of Interventional Cardiology Foundation.

Dr. Sangiorgi is the author of approximately 280 medical papers in major international peer reviewed journals, approximately 600 abstracts in international and national meetings and several book chapters in major cardiology and interventional textbooks. He is associate Editor of Cardiology International Journal and he is part of the Editorial Board of JACC Imaging, Journal of Endovascular Therapy, Italian Journal of Invasive Cardiology, and the World Journal of Cardiology