Professor Giovanni Di Salvo
Director of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease Department, University Hospital of Padua, Italy
Italy
Areas of expertise
- non-invasive cardiology
- congenital heart disease
- structural heart disease
- intraoperative echocardiography
- interventional echocardiography
- paediatric stress echo
- advanced echo techniques such as speckle tracking, 3DTTE, 3DTEE
- atrial function
- cardiomyopathies
- heart failure
- cardiac function in chemotherapy patients.
About the expert
Professor Giovanni Di Salvo is a highly esteemed expert in the field of Cardiology. With a medical degree obtained in 1996, he pursued further specialization in Naples, completing his training with a Master's degree in Cardiac Imaging from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium in 2002 and a PhD in Cardiology from the Second University of Naples in 2004. He has also gained valuable experience working at the Hospital Timone in Marseille, France. He has contributed to 299 Publications and research papers.
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Prof. Giovanni Di Salvo is a highly esteemed expert in the field of Cardiology. Throughout his career, Prof. Di Salvo has held prestigious positions, including the Director of Pediatric Cardiology at King Faisal Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK. His expertise lies in the areas of congenital heart disease, valve pathologies, arterial hypertension, cardiomyopathies, and heart failure.
Currently, Prof. Di Salvo serves as a Full Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Padua in Italy, where he leads the Pediatric Cardiology Department. He also acts as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton London Hospital in the United Kingdom. In recognition of his outstanding contributions, he was appointed as the chair of the European Task Force (EACVI) on adult congenital heart disease
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Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Department
2020 - TodayUniversity hospital Padua, Italy
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Full Professor Pediatric Cardiology Department of Woman and Child Health, Pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease complex unit
2019 - TodayUniversity of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Pediatric Cardiology Consultant and Head of the Pediatric Echo Program
2016 - 2019Royal Brompton Hospital, England
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Honorary Senior Lecturer
2016 - 2019Imperial College of London, England
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Director of the Pediatric Echolab Program
2015 - 2016King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
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Director of Heart Center Research Unit
2014 - 2016King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
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Full Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
2012 - 2016Al Faisal University, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabaia
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Assistant Professor of Cardiology
2002 - 2012Second University of Naples, Monaldi Hospital, Cardio-Thoracic Department, Pediatric Cardiology
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Researcher
2000 - 2001Katholique University of Leuven, Gastuisber Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
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Researcher
2000 - 2000Universite’ de La Mediterranee, La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France
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National Scientific Habilitation for the role of Full Professor of Pediatrics (MED/38)
Italian Ministry of Education University and Research (MIUR)
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PhD in Cardio-Respiratory Physiopathology
Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
2004
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Master's degree in medical imaging
Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium
2002
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Board certification in Cardiology
Second University of Naples, Italy
2000
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MBBCh
Second University of Naples, Italy
1996
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Chair of the EACVI (European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging) Task Force on Adult Congenital Heart Disease (2020)
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European Society of Cardiology (FESC) (2006)
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Fellow of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI) (2015)
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Italian Society of Cardiology
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