Stefano Cacciatore received his MD from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome, Italy) in 2021, and is now a Geriatrics Fellow at the same university. His research mainly focuses on frailty, sarcopenia, and major geriatric syndromes, with a particular focus on nutrition and factors associated with adverse health events in older adults. He is a member of the Special Interest Group on Sarcopenia of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) and of the National Scientific Board of the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO) in the Geriatric Cardiology Area.
Dr. Fabrizio Oliva graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan where he subsequently specialized in Internal Medicine. Dr. Fabrizio Oliva started attending the Niguarda cardiology department in 1989, first as a scholarship holder and in 1993 as a specialist doctor. He has been the Head of the Cardiological Intensive Care Unit of Niguarda since 2015 and the Director of Cardiology 1 - hemodynamics since July 2016. He mainly deals with patients who have heart failure, cardiomyopathies, heart transplant complications, and ischemic heart disease. In 1998, he was sent on command to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) as part of a CNR strategic project on "Right ventricular failure during mechanical left ventricular assistance". Dr. Fabrizio Oliva is the Regional President of ANMCO (National Association of Hospital Cardiologists), a member of the ANMCO-AIOM Cardioncology study group (2010-2014), and a reviewer for the British Medical Journal, the European Journal of Heart Failure, and the Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia. He has taken part as an investigator in various national and international studies/trials and has participated in numerous conferences, both nationally and internationally. He is the author/co-author of over 100 scientific publications in national and international journals.
Prof. Felicita Andreotti is a tenured Professor and Medical Director at the Gemelli IRCCS Hospital and Catholic University in Rome, Italy, where she currently coordinates cardiovascular research within the Scientific Directorate. Prof. Felicita Andreotti gained her MD and two specialties - in respiratory and cardiac diseases - from the University of Strasbourg, France, and then from Pisa, Italy. During her doctoral work in Leiden, NL, and a Lectureship in London, UK, she investigated the fibrinolytic/hemostatic system in health and disease, with funding from the British and Dutch Heart Foundations. Prof. Felicita Andreotti has contributed to more than 20 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) clinical practice guidelines or position papers, chaired the ESC working group on thrombosis, and coordinated multicenter studies funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. She has authored over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including N. Engl. J. Med., JAMA, Lancet, and Brit. Med. J.
