Paolo Palatini
ITALY
Paolo Palatini, MD, born in Italy on November 26th, 1947; nationality – Italian
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Specialized in Internal Medicine and in Cardiology. Worked for 5 years at the Laboratory of Professor Stevo Julius at the University of Michigan (USA) receiving the local Honour. Past Secretary of the Italian Hypertension League and Member of the Boards of the Italian Society of Hypertension and of the Society of Nephrocardiology. Principal Coordinator of the HARVEST Study. Coordinator of several international and national studies of hypertension and of clinical pharmacology. Member of the Editorial Board of several International Journals. Published over 400 articles in leading International Journals with a total IF of over 1700, getting over 16,000 citations and a H-index of 61 according to Google Scholar.
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST: Pathophysiology of the autonomic nervous system;genetics of hypertension and cardiovascular disease;pathophysiology of microalbuminuria in hypertension and myocardial infarction; left ventricular hypertrophy; exercise hemodynamics; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; clinical epidemiology.
