Stefano Fumagalli

Highlights After the PhD degree in “Intensive Care in Elderly patients”, he has mainly dedicated his assistance and research activities to the acute care of older patients and to the treatment of atrial fibrillation at advanced age. He is presently a Fellow of the European Heart Rhythm Association and of the European Society of Cardiology. He works as an Associate Professor in the Geriatric Intensive Care Unit and in the Geriatric Arrhythmia Unit of the University of Florence. Clinical activity He works in the Geriatric Intensive Care Unit of the University of Florence, the first founded in Europe to manage old patients with acute myocardial infarction, acute heart failure and complex arrhythmia problems. He is the responsible of the Geriatric Arrhythmia Unit dedicated to the day-hospital treatment of atrial fibrillation and to the assessment of elderly subjects with indication to CRT/ICD implantation. Research activity Present research activities are addressed to atrial fibrillation in elderly patients, with special interest in: the optimization of anticoagulant therapy; the specific effects of rate- and rhythm-control strategies; atrial fibrillation as a marker of a frail condition. He actively studies also the effects of ICD and CRT therapy at advanced ages. Teaching activity He is involved in the postgraduate courses of Cardiology and of Geriatrics of the University of Florence. In the same University, he also teaches Semeiotics and Geriatrics in the School of Medicine, Geriatrics in the School of Nursing, and Internal Medicine in the School for Physical Therapists.