Francesco Della Rosa

Dr. Francesco Della Rosa is a cardiologist at the Clinical and Interventional Cardiology Department and Coronary Intensive Care Unit (CICU) of IRCCS Policlinico San Donato.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan Bicocca in 2006, where in 2012 he specialized in Cardiology.

From 2006 to 2013, he works at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano first as a medical consultant, then as a doctor in specialist training and later as a cardiologist, dealing with coronary angiographic diagnostics, interdivisional guards, telemedicine and remote monitoring of patients with heart failure. He makes his contribution to the creation of the Heart Failure Center at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano (cardiology day hospital and outpatient clinic for patients with heart failure).

Since 2011, he is the Health Director of the Italian Red Cross Provincial Committee of Milan and, subsequently, of the Milan Committee. As part of this activity, he has had the opportunity to coordinate numerous initiatives and working groups, including the planning and coordination of health activities during major events, concerts and civil protection activities (both during exercises and emergencies).

In 2012, he obtains the certificate of managerial training for director of complex operating unit at the School of Management in Health of the Lombardy Region, and in 2015, he receives his PhD in arterial hypertension and prevention of cardiovascular risk at the University of Milan Bicocca, as in interventional cardiology specialist at the University Hospital and Clinique Pasteur in Toulouse. Here he works in the interventional cardiology department, performing as first surgeon 1,294 coronarography procedures, 696 coronary angioplasty procedures, 59 myocardial biopsy procedures, 230 angiography procedures, 178 peripheral vessel angioplasty procedures, 25 abdominal aortic endoprosthesis procedures and 75 TAVI procedures.

Currently, Dr. Della Rosa is the first interventional cardiology operator at Policlinico San Donato.

Since 2017, he has been attending the Executive Master’s Program in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences at the London School of Economics.

Dr. Della Rosa's research areas of interest include:

• coronary and structural interventional cardiology
• telemonitoring of heart failure patients

• healthcare management.

He has delivered numerous speeches at national and international conferences and published various scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.