Prof. Giovanni Di Salvo

Curriculum Vitae

Scopus ID: 7003610825
Prof. Di Salvo received his Medical Degree cum Laude in 1996 and completed his residency in Cardiology Magna cum Laude in 2000. He also earned MSc Master Degree in Medical Imaging Magna cum Laude from Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium in 2002 and PhD in Cardio-Respiratory Physiopathology and Associated Biotechnologies Magna cum Laude in 2004. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in Pediatric Cardiology since 2006 to Jannuary 2012 at the Second University of Naples, Italy, and as Adjunct Full Professor Pediatric Cardiology at Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were he has been Director of Heart Center Research Unit and Consultant Pediatric Cardiology – Structural Heart Disease from June 2014 to 2016.
Prof. Di Salvo was appointed as Consultant, Lead Pediatric Echocardiography, at Royal Brompton, London, UK, from September 2016 to September 2019, as Lead Pediatric Cardiology Research at Royal Brompton, London, UK from July 2017 to September 2019 and as Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Imperial College of London, from October 2016 to September 2019. He awarded of the qualification for Full Professor in Cardiology in 2018. Since 2019 he is r Full Professor in Pediatric cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease at University of Padua. Since then, he is the only full professor in pediatric cardiology in Italy.
Since 2020 he is chair of the European Task force on Adult CHD.
He has been executive board member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and is actually holding the position of Treasurer at EACVI.
Since 2022 is the Chair of the Italian Working Group on Congenital Heart Diseases of the Italian Society of Cardiology.
He is now president elect of the Italian Society of Echocardiography and CardioVascular Imaging (SIECVI).