Dr. Viviana Maestrini has been working at Sapienza
University of Rome since 2016. Dr. Maestrini’s research interests mainly focus
on advanced heart failure, end-stage heart failure, HLM classification, heart
failure, ischemic heart disease, microcirculation, and ion channels. Dr. Maestrini’s
scientific output includes 110 publications, corresponding to 4950 citations
(h-index 31) (Scopus, 30 November 2023).
Dr. Patrizia Pedrotti currently works in the cardiac
magnetic resonance (CMR) laboratory of the Department of Cardiology, ASST
Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda in Milano, Italy. Dr. Pedrotti does research
in CMR, focusing on myocarditis, heart transplant, and thalassemia. Her scientific
output includes 87 publications, corresponding to 1770 citations (h-index 21)
(Scopus, 30 November 2023).
Prof. Fabrizio Ricci is currently Assistant Professor in
Cardiology at "G.d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He
is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Clinical Applications of
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging" in MDPI. His research interests
mainly focus on cardiovascular magnetic resonance, multi-modality cardiac
imaging, heart valve disease, coronary artery disease, sudden cardiac death,
mitral valve prolapse, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy,
cardiac amyloidosis, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, sports cardiology, heart
failure, cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction, and COVID-19. He has been
actively involved in CMR since 2014 and he reports over 500 cardiac adult MRI
scans each year. He is level 3 certified for CMR, Italian Ambassador of the
young HIT community of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
(EACVI), and question writer for the EACVI CMR certification. He has ongoing
international scientific collaborations with the Clinical Research Center at
Lund University in Malmö, Sweden and the William Harvey Research Institute at
Queen Mary University of London, UK, in diverse areas of clinical research,
namely cardiovascular imaging, cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction, atrial
fibrillation, and sports cardiology.
Dr. Lorenzo Monti works at Humanitas Research Hospital (Rozzano,
Italy). He is a cardiologist and a radiologist. He has gained significant
experience in adult cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, personally reporting
more than 20,000 CMR scans. His research interest mainly focuses on cardiac magnetic resonance. His scientific output includes 66 publications, corresponding to 1105
citations (h-index 15) (Scopus, 30 November 2023).
Dr. Stefano Figliozzi has been working at IRCCS Humanitas
Research Hospital (Milan, Italy) since 2021. Dr. Figliozzi’s research interests
mainly focus on mitochondrial cardiomyopathy, Kearns–Sayre syndrome,
ventricular arrhythmias, imaging, cardiac magnetic resonance, non-ischemic scarring,
echocardiography, mitral valve prolapse, and Fabry disease. Dr. Figliozzi’s scientific
output includes 42 publications, corresponding to 593 citations (h-index 12)
(Scopus, 30 November 2023).
Dr. Camilla Torlasco works in the Department of Medicine and
Surgery at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). Her research
interests mainly focus on hypertension and cardiovascular risk. Her scientific
output includes 62 publications, corresponding to 1805 citations (h-index 22)
(Scopus, 30 November 2023).
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Pontone works at Centro Cardiologico
Monzino, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere (IRCCS) (Milan, Italy). He is
the Section Board Member of JCDD at MDPI. His research interests mainly focus
on cardiac imaging, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, coronary
artery disease, cardiomyopathy, and valve disease. His scientific output
includes 564 publications, corresponding to 17,265 citations (h-index 62)
(Scopus, 30 November 2023).
