Professor Gianfranco Parati

MD Degree, Specialization in Cardiology and in Internal Medicine at the University of Milan, Italy.

Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, and at Children Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston & Cambridge, USA.

Scientific Director Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy. Head, Cardiology Unit and Dept of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, St Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dept of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Honorary Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.

Past President,Italian Society of Hypertension.Past President Foundation of the Italian Society of Hypertension; Past Chairman of ESH Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability. Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Nucleus Member and Treasurer of the Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology. Chairman of the Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring, Italian Society of Hypertension. Secretary General and Executive Board member of the World Hypertension League.

Bjorn Folkow 2015 Award as top European Investigator in Hypertension Pathophysiology.

Executive Editor of the Journal of Hypertension and Associate Editor of Hypertension Research.

Coordinator of a number of international research projects dealing with: Blood Pressure measurement; Blood Pressure Variability; Sleep and Sleep Related Breathing
Disorders; Masked Hypertension worldwide (MASTER Study);Cardiovascular Effects of Altitude Exposure (HIGHCARE PROJECTSon Europe Alps, Himalaya and Peruvian Andes); Space research on microgravity (NASA ,ESA); Telemedicine, Digital Health and Mobile Health through development of a validated application for smartphones.

Publications and metrics: >900 publications in peer reviewed Journals and books (IF 1815.6; H. Index 92; Total citations 40538–from Scopus). Orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-7439.