Prof. Pasquale Strazzullo

Pasquale Strazzullo, MD, FAHA, has been a Professor of Internal Medicine, and Head of the Unit of Emergency Medicine and Hypertension and of the ESH Excellence Center of Hypertension at Federico II University Medical School, till retirement in November 2019. He is an ESH Hypertension Specialist, a Golden Professional Fellow of the American Heart Association, and the Italian referent of the WHO European Salt Action Network. He is a Past-President and currently a member of the Scientific Committee of SINU (Italian Society of Human Nutrition) and Coordinator of the SINU Working Group on Salt and Health. He is also the Coordinator of the SINU committee for the V revision of the Italian Dietary Energy and Nutrients Dietary Reference Values. In his academic career, Prof. Strazzullo has been particularly committed to cardiovascular prevention: his broad area of interest encompasses the nutritional, metabolic, and genetic bases of hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic bone disorders. He was Editor-in-Chief of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases between 2011 and 2014, and has authored over 300 publications, the majority of which are original articles, reviews, and editorials in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and as book chapters.