Dr. Riccardo Scagliola is an Italian Cardiologist who is currently a resident at the Cardiology Division of Cardinal Massaia Hospital in Asti, Italy. He graduated with a Medicine, Surgery, and Cardiovascular Disease degree at the University of Genoa in 2013 and 2019, respectively. He earned his Cardiovascular Imaging fellowships and achieved the EACVI ESC Certification in Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography in 2018 and in Adult Transoesophageal Echocardiography in 2022. His main areas of interest include the following: translational medicine, heart failure and pulmonary hypertension outpatient clinics, genotype-phenotype taxonomy of structural heart disease, and clinical and interventional echocardiography. He is currently a member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, and has authored or co-authored more than 50 original publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has written abstracts presented at National and International Congresses. He is member of the editorial boards for, and is an active reviewer for, various international cardiovascular journals. His research activities are currently focused on the pathophysiology and clinical implications of heart failure, cardiorenal syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, and the imaging assessment of structural heart disease.