Massimiliano Cantinotti is a cardiologist at Fondazione CNR-Regione Toscana G. Monasterio (FTGM), a tertiary Italian center for the care of cardiac disease of all ages. He obtained a degree in medicine and surgery at Pisa University (Italy) in July 2004 and a specialization in cardiology at Pisa University in November 2008. During the specialization, he spent a year (2006) in London at Evelina Children’s Hospital (King’s College). Since 2011, he has been a consultant in pediatric cardiology at the GUCH Department at FTGM. Since 2017 he has run the Echocardiography Lab at FTGM, Massa. Since 2012, he has been on the board of the Imaging Working Group of the AEPC (European Association of Pediatric Cardiology). Since 2015, he has been a research associate of the National Research Institute (CNR) of Pisa. In July 2020, he received National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor of Pediatrics. His main field of research is pediatric echocardiography. Specific research projects include pediatric echocardiographic normal values, lung ultrasound, new imaging modalities (3D echo and 3D printed and virtual models, speckle tracking echocardiography, and vortex imaging).
Pietro Marchese is a Pediatric Cardiologist at Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio and a PhD student at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Pietro Marchese received an MD from the Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia Palermo in 2015 and was a pediatrics resident at Ospedale Santa Chiara Pisa from 2016 to 2021.
Giuseppe Santoro is a paediatric cardiologist and chief of the Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Paediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, G. Pasquinucci Heart Hospital. Giuseppe Santoro received a degree in medicine and surgery and a specialty degree in cardiology from the University of Naples Federico II in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and earned specialty degrees in pediatrics from the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 1994 and in cardiac surgery from the University of Naples Federico II in 2000.
Raffaele Giordano was born in Salerno (Italy) in 1981. He received his medicine degree at the Second University of Naples (cum laude) in 2007 and cardiac surgery specialist degree at the University of Naples Federico II (cum laude) in 2013. He was the pediatric cardiac surgeon at Heart Center of Massa, G. Monasterio Tuscany Foundation, National Center of Research (CNR) from June 2013 to June 2016, a consultant in cardiac surgery at the University of Naples Federico II from July 2016 to November 2019, and adjunct professor and from November 2022 associate professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Naples Federico II. He obtained his PhD in biomorphological and surgical sciences at the University of Naples Federico II. He was an elected member of the National Council of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery, section of pediatric cardiac surgery and congenital heart disease, from November 2012 to 2014. He is a member of Italian Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, an organizer and member of the scientific secretariat of several conferences and training courses, and a speaker at numerous conferences, seminars and refresher courses. His research interests include congenital heart disease, pediatric cardiac surgery, pulmonary hypertension, intensive care unit management post-surgery, biomarkers, cardioplegia, and imaging in pediatric cardiology.
