Department of Internal Medicine
University of Milano-Bicocca
Milan, Italy
Guido Grassi is Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the Clinica Medica of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Director of the Clinica Medica Institute at Saint Gerardo Hospital-Monza/Milano, Italy, Director of the Post-graduate School of Internal Medicine and of the PhD course in Public Health at the University of Milan-Bicocca. He has been Vice-chairman (2002–2004) and then Chairman (2004–2006) of the working group looking at hypertension and the heart for the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). He has been Treasurer and then Secretary of the Italian Society of Hypertension (2004–2007). In 2006–2007 he was a member of the Task Force of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH)/ESC for the 2007 Guidelines on Hypertension. In 2007 he was appointed Wright Lecturer at the annual meeting of the High Blood Pressure Council of Australia. Professor Grassi has served as a member of the Scientific Council of the International Society of Hypertension from 2008–2012 and 2012–2016, and as a member of the Scientific Council of the ESH from 2013–2016. In 2009, he received the Bjorn Folkow Award and Lecture from the ESH. His research areas include the pathophysiology, clinical pharmacology and treatment of hypertension, obesity and metabolic syndrome, cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure. He has published more than 600 original papers and reviews in major scientific international journals (H index: 86). He has served as Vice President of the Italian Society of Hypertension from 2017–2019 and is incoming President for 2019–2021. In 2018, he was appointed Expert Reviewer of the 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines document on hypertension by the ESC/ESH, as well as receiving the Paul Korner Award from the International Society of Hypertension.