Professor Leonardo De Luca

Professor Leonardo De Luca is a cardiologist specialized in interventional cardiology and cardiac catheterization. He has performed numerous coronary, peripheral, and structural interventional procedures as first operator.

He is currently director of the Cardiology Unit of IRCSS San Matteo Foundation in Pavia, which is also the location of the Cardiology residency program of the University of Pavia. Previously, he was staff physician at the Department of Cardiac Sciences, Cardiology Unit at San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital in Rome. Dr. De Luca has an extensive international professional experience having worked at the Cardiology departments of the University Medical Center in Utrecht (Netherlands), Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago (U.S.A.), and Hospital San Francisco Xavier in Lisbon (Portugal).

After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Bari, he specialized in Cardiology at La Sapienza University in Rome, both with the highest honors. He completed a PhD in Cardiorespiratory Pathophysiology and pursued a second-level master's degree in Cardiac Intensive Care at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Policlinico Gemelli in Rome.

He is currently a faculty member in the master's programs "Clinical Competence in Heart Failure" at the University of Florence and "Cardiac Intensive Care and Advanced Treatment of Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock" at the University of Siena.

Dr. De Luca has vast expertise in all areas of interventional cardiology and an extensive scientific production with over 450 publications in scientific journals covering procedures such as complex PCI, peripheral and carotid PTA, mitral and aortic valve diseases, TAVI, aortic endoprostheses, Rotablator, FFR, IVUS, OCT, PFO/ASD closure, and both adult and pediatric structural interventions.