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Domenico Corrado (Italy)

- Full Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Padova Medical School, Padova

- Director, Inherited Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy & Sports Cardiology Unit, Department of Cardiac,  Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova  Medical School, Padova, Italy

- Past-president of the Section of Sports Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology

- Past-president of the Italian Society of Sports Cardiology

- Over 400 peer-reviewed publications in Cardiological journals (including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet,  Circulation and Journal of American College of Cardiology)

- Current Scopus h-index =93

Invited Faculty to European and North-American Centres and Symposia.

- Fellow and Member of National and International Societies.

- Reviewer of most major Cardiological Journals (including  NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and European Heart Journal)

- Major research interests include: Epidemiology, pathology and pathophysiology of sudden death in young people and athletes; Genetic and morphologic  basis of inherited conditions at risk of arrhythmic sudden death; Preparticipation screening strategy for identification of cardiovascular diseases at risk of sudden death during sports; Interpretation of athlete’s ECG; Criteria for diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies; Value and limitation of electrophysiologic evaluation in inherited cardiomyopathies and cardiac ion channel diseases; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator, therapy for prevention of sudden arrhythmic death in inherited cardiomyopathies and cardiac ion channel diseases.