Maurizio Pieroni

Maurizio Pieroni, MD, PhD, is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Florence and Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy. His clinical and research activity focuses on cardiomyopathies, with particular expertise in Anderson-Fabry disease cardiomyopathy.

His academic and clinical contributions are extensive, including:

• Cardiomyopathy care: He was responsible for the cardiomyopathy clinic of San Donato Hospital in Arezzo and, earlier, for the cardiomyopathy clinic and the endomyocardial biopsy laboratory of the Policlinico A. Gemelli – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.
• Research: He has authored more than 120 publications in international journals, including studies on the diagnosis of Fabry cardiomyopathy with echocardiography, tissue Doppler imaging and cardiac magnetic resonance.
• Recognition: He received the Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Cardiology (2005) and a scientific prize for cardiovascular research from the Aventis Foundation.

Dr Pieroni obtained a PhD in Human Pathology at Sapienza University of Rome and has been a member of the European Society of Cardiology since 2001.