Dr. Giovanni Benfari has completed his cardiological training at the University of Verona in Italy. His clinical and research expertise is mainly in the echocardiographic field, including transthoracic and transesophageal approaches. His research focuses on valvular heart disease, with a particular interest in combined/multivalvular heart disease. His research training included a fellowship in advanced echocardiographic research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, and he currently holds a research collaborator position at the Mayo Clinic. He has 124 publications with 1974 citations and an h-index of 22 (Scopus, 25 October 2023).