Andrea Igoren Guaricci earned his MD from the University of Bologna in Italy. He completed his cardiovascular medicine residency at the University of Bari, followed by cardiology and radiology fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh and Weill Medical College Cornell University. He joined the Italian Society of Cardiology, where he served as Chairman of the Working Group on Cardiac Imaging. His work focuses on the quality of diagnosis by echocardiography, cardiac MR, and cardiac CT and the care and clinical outcomes of cardiomyopathies and heart failure patients.