Rosa Raimondo (Роза Раймондо)

Dr. Rosa Raimondo is a cardiologist at the Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit of the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, led by Professor Domenico Cianflone.

She graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery in 1996 from the University of Bari, where she also completed her specialization in Cardiology in 2001.

From 2001 to 2002, she worked as a cardiologist in the Cardiac Surgery Department of the GVM group in Lecce and Bari. From 2002 to 2023, she served as a cardiologist in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Department of the Salvatore Maugeri Foundation in Tradate (VA).

Dr. Raimondo has extensive experience in treating patients with heart failure, coronary artery disease (with or without prior myocardial infarction), and those who have undergone cardiac surgery for coronary bypass, valve repair or replacement, and aortic aneurysm surgery.

She has significant expertise in cardiovascular prevention and managing progressive and recurrent heart failure, valvular diseases, ischemic heart disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, atrial fibrillation, and thromboembolic prophylaxis.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Raimondo is skilled in diagnostics, utilizing stress ECG, color Doppler echocardiograms, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, Holter ECG monitoring, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). This testing is crucial for evaluating exercise capacity in cardiac patients following an acute event or hospitalization and is also applied to athletes in competitive programs.

Dr. Raimondo is also a lecturer in the Master's program in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at the University of Pavia.

Her scientific activity includes numerous peer-reviewed publications in national and international journals, as well as book chapters. She has an h-index of 21 with 1,208 citations. She regularly participates in national and international conferences as a speaker. Her work can be referenced through bibliographic databases such as Scopus; Orcid; Pubmed.