Hypertension Unit
Department of Clinical
and Experimental Medicine
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy
Stefano Taddei is Professor of Internal Medicine, currently working as Director of the Hypertension Unit at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Pisa, Italy. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, the European, International and American Society of Hypertension, the European Society of Clinical Investigation, the High Blood Pressure Council of the American Heart Association, and the Italian Society of Hypertension. He served as a councillor of the Italian Society of Hypertension from 2007 until 2009. Professor Taddei is an editorial board member for Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Current Vascular Pharmacology, Current Hypertension Reviews, High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Prevention and Journal of American Society of Hypertension. He is an International Associated Editor of the European Heart Journal. His main research area is the local neuro-humoral control of peripheral vessels in primary and secondary forms of hypertension, with particular emphasis on the sympathetic nervous system, the renin-angiotensin system and the endothelium. He is also interested in the assessment of target-organ damage in hypertension, including vascular and cardiac structural alterations and the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular drugs. Professor Taddei has participated in numerous clinical studies and is the authors of more than 350 original papers, reviews and editorials in international scientific journals (H index: 64; Impact Factor: >2154).