Franco Cecchi

Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases University of Florence Florence (IT) Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences IRCCS, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, S.Luca Hospital, Milan (IT) EDUCATION 1968 – 74 M.D. Medical School University of Florence (magna cum laude) 1974 – 77 Cardiovascular diseases Postgraduate School University of Florence (magna cum laude) TRAINING IN FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS 1980 Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hosp, LONDON (GB) for Cardiomyopathies 1987 Cardiology Branch of The Heart, Blood and Lung Institute (NHBLI) of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (NIH), Bethesda, Md, USA, for “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy” 1991 Hospital for Sick Children, at Great Ormond Street for Congenital heart diseases and St. George’s Medical School , LONDON (GB) for “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy” PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY 1979-2011 Cardiology Unit General Hospital of Careggi Focus in Clinical cardiology, Epidemiology and Management of heart diseases, with special interest in the field of Cardiomyopathies , Congenital heart diseases and Echocardiography 2002-11 Head of Regional Referral Center for Cardiomyopathies, University Hospital of Careggi , Florence 2005-11 Associate Professor of Cardiology, Dept. Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence 2012-19 Associate Professor of Cardiology, Università S.Raffaele vita, MD Course, Milan, Italy 2014-on Cardiomyopathy Center, IRCCS, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, San Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMME DIRECTOR IN HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY 1999 Clinical Evaluation and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, European Society of Cardiology, Sophia-Antipolis-France 2008 Florence International Course on Advances in Cardiomyopathies European Society of Cardiology WG on Myocardial Diseases annual meeting 2012 Florence International Symposium on Advances in Cardiomyopathies European Society of Cardiology WG on Myocardial Diseases annual meeting 2015 Florence International Symposium on Advances in Cardiomyopathies European Society of Cardiology WG on Myocardial Diseases annual meeting INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMME DIRECTOR IN FABRY DISEASE 2013 13th European Round Table on Fabry Disease 2013 “Improving Specialized Clinical Management” – Madrid ESC GUIDELINES ON HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY 2014 Elliott PM, Anastasakis A, Borger MA, Borggrefe M, Cecchi F, Charron P, Hagege AA, Lafont A, Limongelli G, Mahrholdt H, McKenna WJ, Mogensen J, Nihoyannopoulos P, Nistri S, Pieper PG, Pieske B, Rapezzi C, Rutten FH, Tillmanns C, Watkins H; Guidelines on diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Eur Heart J. 2014 CONSENSUS ON FABRY DISEASE 2020 Linhart A, Germain DP, Olivotto I, Akhtar MM, Anastasakis A, Hughes H, Namdar M, Hagège A, Cecchi F, Gimeno JR, Limongelli G, Elliott P An Expert Consensus Document on the Management of Cardiovascular Manifestations of Fabry Disease. Eur J heart failure 2020 (in press)