Attilio Maseri

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Attilio Maseri (born November 12, 1935 in Udine ; † September 3, 2021 in Pavia di Udine ) was an Italian cardiologist .

Life

Maseri graduated from the University of Padua with a degree in medicine and surgery in 1960 , followed by further degrees in cardiology in 1963 and in nuclear medicine in 1968 from the University of Pisa . In 1965 he went to Columbia University (with André Frédéric Cournand ) and in 1966 to Johns Hopkins University . In 1967 he became assistant professor of special pathology and head of the research group on coronary artery disease at the University of Pisa, where he pioneered the use of radioactive tracers in the study of blood flow in the heart. In 1979 he became a professor at the University of London's Royal Postgraduate Medical Schooland director of cardiology at Hammersmith Hospital. In 1991 he returned to Italy, where he became professor of cardiology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and director of cardiology at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic . From 2001 to 2008 he was a professor at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan and head of the heart-lung and blood vessels department at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

From 2008 he was president of the non-profit organization Per il tuo cuore of the Italian hospital cardiologists for the fight against heart disease, which he co-founded in 1998.

Maseri was considered a leading researcher in the field of ischemic heart disease. He has authored and co-authored over 750 scientific publications.

His patients included Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II.

In 1992 he received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine. In 2005 he became a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. He received the American Heart Association Council's James B. Herrick Award in Clinical Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology's Distinguished Scientist Award. He received the great science prize of the Institut de France (2004), in 1998 the Premio Invernizzi for medicine and he received the medal of the President of the Republic of the Premio Nazionale Letterario Pisa. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (1998). John Paul II appointed him commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

From 2004 to 2007 he was President of the Italian Society of Cardiology. He was an Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Attilo Maseri was married to Francesca Florio from 1960. An award from the American College of Cardiology is named after him and his wife.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ichemic heart disease. A rational basis for clinical practice and research . New York, Churchill Livingstone 1995.

literature

  • C. Richard Conti: Attilio Maseri . Clinical Cardiology, Vol. 27, 2004, p. 371.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giacomina Pellizzari: Addio al professor Attilio Maseri: curò Papa Giovanni Paolo II e la regina Elisabetta. In: messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it. September 3, 2021, accessed September 4, 2021 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Maseri, Attilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardiologist
BIRTH DATE November 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Udine
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Pavia di Udine