Riccardo Sarzani, MD, PhD, currently works as a full Professor of Internal Medicine at the Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences—DISCLIMO, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, and is the Head of Internal and Geriatric Medicine and the ESH Hypertension Excellence Centre. He is also a member of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and Heart Failure Association. He conducts research in internal medicine and cardiovascular fields, mostly focusing on hypertension, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, and natriuretic peptides. He has an h-Index of 39, and his papers have been cited more than 5,100 times (Scopus, 20 November 2023).
Dr Francesco Spannella is a researcher at Università Politecnica delle Marche and IRCCS INRCA of Ancona (Italy). Dr Spannella earned a degree at the School of Medicine and Surgery at Università Politecnica delle Marche and completed a specialization in geriatrics at Università Politecnica delle Marche. Dr Spannella works at the Internal Medicine and Geriatrics IRCCS INRCA (Ancona), a Hypertension Excellence Center certified by the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), Center for the Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis (LIPIGEN Center of Italian Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis). Dr Spannella's research and clinical interests are in the following fields: hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, geriatrics, multicentric international clinical trials on hypertension, heart failure, dyslipidemia, and COPD. Dr Spannella is a member of the Italian Society of Hypertension and young researchers group.
