Giuseppe Pizzetti

Dr Giuseppe Pizzetti is responsible for the Dynamic Electrocardiography of the Cardiovascular Risk Management Outpatient Department of the Cardiology Operating Unit directed by Professor Alberto Margonato.

In 1987, he graduates in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan. Then, in 1991, he obtains specialization in Cardiology at the Monzino cardiology center in Milan.

During the first years of his activity, Dr Pizzetti carries out experimental laboratory work in te on the effects of selective drugs on the coronary circulation and clinical studies, including short periods of stay abroad for in-depth courses both in the USA (New Yale University) and Europe (Paris, Madrid, Rotterdam, Padova)

Subsequently, he serves as head of the Coronary Care Unit at Ospedale San Raffaele. After a short period as Chief of Cardiology at Policlinico San Marco (Osio Sotto,BG), since 2016 he returns to Ospedale San Raffaele to develop the Cardiovascular Risk Management outpatient clinic project.

From a clinical point of view, Dr. Pizzetti takes a 360-degree approach to primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention, with particular attention to new drugs, precision therapy and complex situations that require a more comprehensive patient assessment.

Currently, he is the reference consultant for the management and surveillance program of patients with renal failure and/or diabetes with particular attention to kidney/pancreas transplant recipients, a collaborator in the support program for pregnant cardiopathic women, and reference cardiologist for the evaluation of cardiac involvement in autoimmune diseases such as SLE.

Further aspects of clinical interest include risk management in complex situations such as cardiotoxicity from chemotherapies, hemorrhagic risk in new anticoagulant therapies, development of new approaches in resistant hypertension and in the control of dyslipidemia both in primary and secondary prevention.

He is the author and co-author of 23 publications in scientific journals in the field. His H-index is 6.

He regularly participates in national and international conferences in the field and is involved in numerous accredited CME training events for specialists and general practitioners.