Prof. Marco Valgimigli is an Interventional Cardiologist and Deputy Chief of Cardiology at the Cardiocentro Ticino Institute in Lugano, Switzerland and head of clinical research.  He is Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. 

 

He obtained his medical degree in 1997 with Summa Cum Laude at the University of Bologna, Italy, and completed his training in internal medicine at the same university (1997-1999). He received a degree in cardiological sciences at the University of Ferrara and a PhD in interventional cardiology at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.

 

Prof. Valgimigli is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), he is part of the press committee since 2006 and vice chairman of the EAPCI research committee since 2012. He also took as member of the ESC 2013 STEMI and 2014 Revascularization guidelines. He led as principal investigators more than 20 multicenter clinical trials and served as member, section coordinator or chairperson of multiple European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines.

 

Prof. Valgimigli has published more than 700 peer-reviewed manuscripts, with research interests spanning from coronary and structural interventions to anti-thrombotics. With an H-index of 118 in Scopus and more than 5000 citations, he has been awarded with the highly Cited Researcher title in the field of medicine since 2017.

Prof. Marco Valgimigli has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

Abbott Vascular, Alvimedica, AstraZeneca, Biotronic, Chiesi Pharma, Concept Medical, Cordis, Corflow, Daiichi Sankyo, Idorsia, Johnson & Johnson Janssen, Novartis, Om Pharma, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Terumo Inc, Vesalio,