Les Meilleurs doctors pour le traitement d'hypertension en Italie - TOP-8 des médecins

The prof. Giuseppe Speziale holds the positions of the National Coordinator of Cardiac Surgery of GVM Care & Research, the Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Anthea Hospital and Città di Lecce Hospital, and Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the Santa Maria Hospital. He works at the Cardiological Clinical Institute (ICC) and San Carlo di Nancy Hospital in Rome. Since 2011 he has also held the position of Vice President of GVM Care & Research. In 2012 he occupied the charge of President of Confindustria Puglia, Health Section, and since 2018 he is Vice President of Aiop Puglia (Italian association of private hospitals). The prof. Speziale is a cardiac surgeon specializing in the minimally invasive surgical treatment of valve diseases, expert in minimally invasive repair of the mitral valve, in On and Off Pump myocardial revascularization, in thoracic aortic surgery. He is Co - Founder and President of the Scientific Committee of Mitral Academy, an independent association born from the passion for mitral surgery and the desire to pursue and share excellence in restorative surgery, with particular attention to minimally invasive techniques and the evaluation of potential therapeutic treatments deriving from the use of new technologies. Until 2016 he was elected Director of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery. He is part of the following associations: AATS (American Association for Thoracic Surgery), Italian Society of Cardiology Accredited Hospital, SICOA (active member), ISMICS (International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery). Since 2004 he has held the position of Scientific Director of the Italian Cardiopathic Association onlus.

In the field of scientific research, he focuses on new approaches, applicable in the field of minimally invasive and non-invasive mitral, aortic, cardiac arrhythmias and tricuspid surgery. He was the coordinator and researcher of the various projects of the National Research Council on Myocardial Infarction, on the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, on new technologies for carrying out coronary, cardiopulmonary and normothermic bypass. He was an adjunct professor at the Sapienza University of Rome where he held the Chair of Cardiology II, and at the University of Ferrara, where he teaches Cardiac Surgery. He has presented numerous scientific papers at national and international congresses of cardiology and cardiac surgery.

Bibliography: He is co-author of 6 books known nationally and internationally. The most recent one is Advances in Treatments for Aortic Valve and Root Diseases, publisher Springer International Publishing, 2018.

He is Reviewer and author of over 90 publications of multiple journals, such as Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, Heart & Lung: The Journal of Cardiopulmonary and Acute Care, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal on Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery etc.

Awards: “Top Doctors Awards”, 2021

En 1995, il a obtenu son diplôme à la Faculté de Médecine et de Chirurgie de l'Université de Catanzaro « Magna Graecia », où, en 2001, il s'est spécialisé en Médecine Interne. En 2006, il a suivi le cours « State of the Art in AFIB and HF Treatments » dirigé par le Dr Carlo Pappone. En 2014, il a fréquenté le Heart Rhythm Management Center Universitair Ziekenhuis à Bruxelles et a obtenu la certification pour les procédures de traitement de la fibrillation auriculaire par cryoénergie (Cryoballon Training Program). En 2015, il a été certifié pour les procédures d'implantation de stimulateurs cardiaques sans fil MICRA-TPS au Medtronic Training Center de Minneapolis (MICRA-TPS Training Program).

Le Dr Iacopino est membre d'importantes sociétés scientifiques nationales et internationales telles que l'American College of Cardiology, l'European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society, l'European Heart Rhythm Association et l'European Society of Cardiology. Il dirige plusieurs projets d'étude, applicables au grand bénéfice du patient, sur l'identification de syndromes rares associés aux arythmies et à l'insuffisance cardiaque, tels que le syndrome de Brugada ou le syndrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White. Il a récemment testé, pour la première fois en Italie, le CardioInsight, une veste innovante de haute technologie pour la cartographie 3D des troubles du rythme cardiaque. Il a participé et animé de nombreuses conférences médicales dans le monde entier, offrant une préparation théorique et pratique aux différentes procédures interventionnelles destinées aux électrophysiologistes et aux techniciens en électrophysiologie de toute l'Italie et de l'étranger (Royaume-Uni, Allemagne, Espagne, Russie). Il a été membre du registre national d'électrophysiologie et d'ablation AIAC, du registre national d'extraction de sonde AIAC et du registre national des stimulateurs cardiaques et des défibrillateurs implantables AIAC.

Il est auteur ou co-auteur de plusieurs publications et interventions dans des revues médicales prestigieuses (facteur d'impact total : 169,098).

Il a reçu différentes bourses :  

- Fellowship ANMCO (Association Nationale des Cardiologues Hospitaliers), Florence, 3 juin 2007 ;

- Bourse ESC (Société Européenne de Cardiologie), Munich, 1er septembre 2008 ;

- Bourse ACC (American College of Cardiology), Atlanta, 1er février 2010