Marco Canepa

Marco Canepa is Associate Professor of Cardiology at the University of Genova and Consultant Cardiologist at the San Martino Hospital in Genova, Italy. After receiving his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Genova, he completed a 4-year clinical fellowship in cardiology at the same institution, and subsequently a 3-year research fellowship on cardiovascular aging at the National Institute on Aging/NIH in Baltimore, USA. During the same period he served as research fellow at the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of Excellence of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is now teaching cardiovascular diseases at the School of Medicine and Cardiology Fellowship Program of the University of Genova. He is Head of the Cardiomyopathy and Co-Head of the Heart Failure Outpatient Clinics at the San Martino Hospital in Genova. His clinical, teaching and research activity is primarily focused on heart failure and cardiomyopathies, with a particular focus on heart failure epidemiology, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis. He has been fellow of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) since 2017. He has established continuous research collaborations with several Italian and international projects, including the EuroObservational Programme (EORP) of the ESC, the Swedish Heart Failure (SwedeHF), the Sarcomeric Human Cardiomyopathy Registry (SHaRe), the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) and the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell Infarto miocardico–Heart Failure (GISSI-HF). He is Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cardiology and of the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine. He has been serving as peer-reviewer for the several international journals, including Circulation, European Heart Journal, JACC and the European Journal of Heart Failure. He is author of more than 100 original publications on peer-reviewed journals, in most of which he is first or last author, and has an H index of 27 and more than 2400 citations. ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-5576