Percutaneous Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women

Patrizia Presbitero, consultant of  Interventional Cardiology  at the Humanitas Research Hospital  of Rozzano –Milano, Italy. After training at the National Heart hospital , Sick Children Hospital and Brompton Hospital in London  and  in the Catheterization Laboratory in Nieuwegein –Utrecht, she became Responsible of the Catheterisation Laboratory of the University of Torino  and then Director of Interventional Cardiology of Humanitas Research Hospital . In her clinical practice, she employs the most advanced devices made available to interventional cardiologists. Her research interests focus on congenital , valvular heart diseases and on heart disease in women and during pregnancy .On this subject she wrote a book “The heart of the women”. 

Julinda Mehilli is Director of Interventional Cardiology at Klinikum der Universität, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany.  She is practicing interventionalist withan experience of more than a decade in interventional cardiology with a wide curriculum in treatment of coronary artery and structural heart disease.  Alongside her interventional career, Professor Mehilli   ranks among the best publishing cardiologists in her research field – optimization and risk-adapted tailoring of device design and interventional strategy in patients with coronary and aortic valve disease as well as individualization and adjustment of antithrombotic therapy according to ischemic-bleeding risk profile of the interventionally-treated patients. Furthermore, she is the co-founder of the WOMEN-EAPCI working group within the European Society of Cardiology with the mission to attain gender equality at the professional and patient level.

A. Sonia Petronio is Professor of Cardiology since 2002 at the Cardio-Thoracic Department of the University of Pisa, Italy, and Director of the Hemodynamics department of the University Hospital in Pisa.  After training at the National Heart Hospital and King's College Hospital in London, the Cardiologic Department of University of Verona, the Catheterization Laboratory of San Diego, and the Catheterization Laboratory of New York, she then became Responsible of the Catheterization Laboratory of the Cardiac and Thoracic Dept. of the University of Pisa, where she currently works as interventional cardiologist. She is Co-founder of WIN (Women in Innovation, SCAI) and of the new WOMEN-EAPCI group.