Degree in medicine and surgery, specialist in cardiology and nephrology, associate professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Research fields: cardiovascular diseases in patients with chronic renal failure; cardiovascular and metabolic risk in children and adolescents. She has participated in the drafting of several Italian and international guidelines and consensus. She has coordinated several clinical research studies, both monocentric and multicentric. She is author of about 150 manuscripts on international indexed journals.