Dr. Carlo Caiati has been tenured for more than 20 years. He is the head of the echo lab and a teacher at the Bari School of Medicine (chief of the multidisciplinary course "Medical and Surgical Specialties 1" on the BEMC – Bari English Medical Curriculum). He has engaged in lots of research activities, particularly focused on coronary artery disease, as well as cardioembolism, cardiomyopathy, valvular diseases, and nutritional biochemistry. He is the author of 42 full-text articles (mostly published in renowned international journals, such as the Journal of American College of Cardiology, Circulation, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and JACC –Cardiovascular Imaging), two letters, nine book chapters, three in-conference proceedings, and 118 meeting abstracts presented mostly at important international congresses, such as the ACC – American College of Cardiology (14 ACC presentations in the last 8 years: acceptance rate 80%).