Dr. Andrea Boccatonda, MD, is a physician and researcher in Internal Medicine with a particular expertise in diagnostic and interventional ultrasound. He received his degree in Medicine and Surgery from the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where he subsequently completed his residency training in Internal Medicine. He currently works as an Internal Medicine physician with advanced expertise in ultrasound imaging in Bologna, Italy, and is completing a PhD at the University of Bologna. His clinical and research activity is primarily focused on multiparametric ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), elastography, vascular and thoracic ultrasound, as well as their applications in internal medicine. Dr. Boccatonda has authored or co-authored more than 130 scientific articles indexed in PubMed and has an h-index of 26. His research interests also include cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, venous thromboembolism, hemostasis, and thrombosis. He is actively involved in scientific societies and academic activities and serves as a reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals. He is also Section Editor for Chest and Cardiovascular Ultrasound at the Journal of Ultrasound, the official journal of the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB). His scientific activity is particularly devoted to the development and clinical implementation of advanced ultrasound techniques as non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring tools acr