Prof Peter Schwartz

Professor of Medicine and Cardiology

CHI membership: Scientific Advisory Board

2013-present, Director: Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milan, Italy
1995-2013 Professor and Chairman of Cardiology, University of Pavia, Italy
1999-2000 President of the Italian Society of Cardiology
Only European investigator with uninterrupted funding from the US National Institutes of Health for over 40 years.
Numerous and prestigious awards including: Paul Dudley White International Lecture, AHA Scientific Sessions 2005; “Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande-Institut de France Grand Prix Scientifique” 2019, second for importance only to the Nobel Prize.
Currently funded by the Fondation Leducq, the Horizon 2020 European Community program, and the Italian Ministry of Health.
Prof. Schwartz authored more than 1,600 publications. His current h-index is 138 (source: Scopus)

Research engagements:

Genetics and management of the long QT syndrome and channelopathies
Modifier genes for sudden cardiac death
Cellular electrophysiology, Precision Medicine and channelopathies
Autonomic nervous system and life-threatening arrhythmias