Luisa Politano is a former associate professor of Medical Genetics at the School of Medicine, University of Campania, Naples, Italy. She holds a Doctor of Medicine and is a specialist in cardiology and medical genetics. Her areas of expertise include muscular dystrophies, myopathies, and primary cardiomyopathies. She is a member of several scientific societies, including AIM, MSM, WMS, and SIGU. Luisa is also the editor of Acta Myologica, the official journal of the Italian Association of Myology and of the Mediterranean Association of Myology, and she acts as referee for numerous scientific journals. She published more than 260 articles, 231 of them cited in PubMed.