Domenico Sirico is an interventional paediatric and ACHD cardiologist currently working in the Paediatric Cardiology Unit of the University Hospital of Padua, Italy. He graduated at Federico II University in
Naples (Italy), then he trained in Cardiology at the Bicocca University, Milan (Italy). Afterwards he worked as a clinical and interventional fellow in Paediatric Cardiology at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London (UK). In 2020 he moved back to his home country and since then has been living and working in Padua.
He is the junior councillor of the AEPC Interventional working group, and board member of the ACHD group of the Italian National Association of Hospital Cardiologist Physicians (ANMCO).
His main clinical and scientific interests are interventional cardiology, advanced echocardiography (3D echo, STE), and heart failure.
He is among the three winners of the 2023 Young Investigator Exchange Program (YIEP) between AEPC and the Japanese Society of Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery (JSPCCS).
Dr. Gabriele Rinelli holds a position as chief of the echocardiography unit (UOS Ecocardiografia) and is currently working at the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù. He conducts research into cardiology and pediatrics. His research interests include paediatric cardiology, isolated aortic valve disease and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He is the author of 60 scientific publications, most of which are published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields (source from ResearchGate).
