Dr. Francesco Santoro is a cardiologist, PhD, postdoc researcher at the University of Foggia, Italy, and consultant at the University Hospital of Foggia. Since September 2019, he gained Italian habilitation as a full professor of cardiology. In 2013, he attended the Texas Arrhythmia Institute in Austin, Texas, USA, for six months under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Natale. Between 2015 and 2018, he attended the electrophysiology laboratory at the Department of Cardiology at the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg. Research topic: Cardiomyopathies (Takotsubo syndrome) and catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia (papillary muscles VT/VF). He has authored 180 publications in indexed journals, about 170 abstracts, and 6 electrophysiology book chapters. H index 30.