Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai was born in San Remo, Italy, on 25 July 1974. He obtained his MD diploma magna cum laude at the University of Milan, Italy, in 1999. He subsequently pursued specialist training in cardiovascular medicine, obtaining his Cardiologist diploma magna cum laude at the Catholic University, Rome, Italy, in 2004. In 2004-2005 he completed his Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Invasive Cardiology Unit of St. Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy. Since 2006 he has served as Assistant Professor in Cardiology, until 2010 in the Division of Cardiology of the University of Turin, Turin, Italy, during 2011 in the Division of Cardiology of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, and since late 2011 in the Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies of the Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy. Since January 2018 he is Associate Professor in Cardiology at Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy. He has also attended doctoral courses in biomedical statistics at the Biometrics and Medical Statistics Institute of the University of Milan, Italy, and has obtained a Master in Statistics diploma at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy, in 2015. As a whole, he has coauthored more than 950 articles indexed in PubMed, as well as several book chapters. He has a h index of 107 in Google Scholar, for a total of more than 47,000 citations, qualifying him in the list of Top Italian Scientists – Biomedical Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of an international biomedical journal (Minerva Cardiology and Angiology), serves on the Editorial Board of several biomedical journals (including the European Heart Journal), and he has edited several textbooks, ranging in topics from network meta-analyses to umbrella reviews, diagnostic meta-analyses, hybrid cardiovascular imaging, and transcatheter aortic valve implantation, published by Minerva Medica, Nova Science Publishers, and Springer.
His research interests include: