Dr. Sangiorgi was born in Florence on October 4th 1965. He graduated at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1990. He is Board Certified in Cardiology (1994) and Surgical Pathology (1999). He served as a Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, USA from 1992 to 1999. From 1998 he has been Assistant Professor at the University of Rome and from 2005 to 2008 he has been Director of the Interventional Cardiology Program at the same University. He is Chief of the Cardiac Cath Lab of the II University of Rome Tor Vergata. Dr. Sangiorgi is a Fellow of the Italian Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the American Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology. He is a member of the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology and Coronary Circulation of the European Society of Cardiology. Dr. Sangiorgi is author of approximately 320 medical publications.