Paolo Verdecchia

Dr. Paolo Verdecchia, M.D., F.E.S.C., F.A.C.C. Place and Date of Birth: San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. June 10, 1952 Present Position and Address: President, Fondazione Umbra Cuore e Ipertensione-ONLUS. Division of Cardiology. Hospital of Perugia, Italy. Phone: +39 348 3318077. E-mail: verdecchiapaolo@gmail.com Training and Education: • MD University of Perugia 1976 • Visiting Doctor, Cornell University, New York Hospital, year 1994 • Visiting Guest Professor McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, years 2008-2009 Post Graduate Degrees: • Board license specialist in Cardiology, University of Perugia, 1979 • Board license specialist in Internal Medicine, University of Brescia, 1990 European Society of Cardiology Activities: • Member ESC Working Group on the Heart and Hypertension • Member ESC Council on Hypertension Editorial Boards: • Associate Editor: 1) International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention; 2) Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia. • Editorial Board Member (present and past): Hypertension, Circulation, Circulation Research, American Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Human Hypertension, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Nutrition Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease, Italian Journal of Medicine. Fellowship / Honors: • Fellow European Society of Cardiology (F.E.S.C.), 2011 • Fellow American College of Cardiology (F.A.C.C.), 2000 • Lecturer of the Year: University of Leuven, Belgium, 2014 • More than one hundred invited lectures internationally and several hundred lectures in Italy. Major Research Interest: • Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Atrial Fibrillation. • Chairman of several multicenter studies in Italy. Major Publications: • About 502 scientific articles quoted in PubMed (abstracts excluded). • Indexes of scientific production from Google Scholar (as of Jan 14, 2022): • Citations: 107,278; • H-Index: 93 (since year 2018: 50); i10-index: 332 (since year 2018: 206). • Five Selected Publications: 1. Verdecchia P, et al. Circadian blood pressure changes and left ventricular hypertrophy in essential hypertension. Circulation. 1990 Feb;81(2):528-36 2. Verdecchia P, et al. Ambulatory blood pressure. An independent predictor of prognosis in essential hypertension. Hypertension. 1994 Dec;24(6):793-801. 3. Verdecchia P, et al. Schillaci G, Borgioni C, Ciucci A, Gattobigio R, Zampi I, Reboldi G, Porcellati C. Prognostic significance of serial changes in left ventricular mass in essential hypertension. Circulation. 1998 Jan 6-13;97(1):48-54. 4. Verdecchia P, et al. Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation: Doubts and Certainties from Basic and Clinical Studies. Circ Res. 2018 Jan 19;122(2):352-368. 5. Verdecchia P, et al. Usual versus tight control of systolic blood pressure in non-diabetic patients with hypertension (Cardio-Sis): an open-label randomised trial. Lancet. 2009 Aug 15;374(9689):525-33.