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Lia Crotti (Italy)

Professor Lia Crotti University of Milan Bicocca, Milan (Italy) Since 2021, she is the Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit – Auxologico San Luca and, since 2013, she serves as Head of the Cardiomyopathy Center at San Luca Hospital, Milan. In addition, she is responsible for MAC channelopathies, where flecainide/ajmaline and mexiletine testing is performed, and she supervises diagnostic and research activities of the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory of the Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Genetic Arrhythmic Disorders (Director: Prof. Peter J. Schwartz). Between 2011 – 2015 she also worked as a visiting professor and group leader in the Cardiovascular Research Area at the Helmholtz Zentrum, Munic and, between 2003 and 2013 she was Head of the outpatient clinic and Molecular Cardiology Laboratory at San Matteo Hospital, Pavia (Director: Prof. Peter J. Schwartz). From the very beginning of her career, Professor Crotti has worked in collaboration with international centers and has undertaken numerous research periods abroad. She has Conducted research activities at the Department of Human Genetics of the Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich (2011-2015) and at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, as part of a project funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (2002-2007).