Dr. Marzia Cottini holds a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Varese (in Italy). Afterwards, she attended the cardiac surgery residency program in Varese and the last months at the Toronto General Hospital (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). She obtained the Postgraduate Specialization in Cardiac Surgery in May 2015. She started a surgical and research fellowship in cardiac surgery at the Heart Transplantation Center of San Camillo Hospital ( Rome, Italy) and then a surgical fellowship at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the La Pitie-Salpetriere ( Paris, France). She is Advisor, Reviewer and Editorial Board member of several scientific papers. She has published many articles and collaborated in many clinical works. Currently, she is attending the PhD course of Angio-Cardio-Thoracic Pathophysiology and Imaging, University "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy).

Dr. Marzia Cottini Research Interests are Cardiac Surgery, Heart transplantation, Heart failure, current therapy in heart failure, future perspecitves in angio-cardio-thoracic imaging.