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Claudio Montalto is an interventional cardiologist at the De Gasperis Cardio Center, Niguarda Hospital, Milan. After graduating with honours from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and completing his cardiology residency at the University of Pavia, he trained as an interventional fellow at Oxford University Hospitals, where he obtained EAPCI certification. He is currently a PhD candidate in Public Health (Epidemiology, Statistics and Economics) at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

His research focuses on ischaemic and valvular heart disease, with particular interest in outcomes of high-risk PCI and TAVI, intracoronary physiology and imaging, and the care of older adults with cardiovascular disease. He leads registry-based and multicentre clinical research and serves as local principal investigator in ongoing clinical trials. He has authored 103 peer-reviewed publications indexed in PubMed, including articles in The Lancet, European Heart Journal, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions and Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. His work has received over 2,700 citations, with an h-index of 26 and an i10-index of 49 (Google Scholar, November 2026).

He is Deputy Editor of European Heart Journal – Case Reports and an editor of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. He is regularly invited as faculty at national and international meetings and received the ESC Acute Cardiovascular Care Association award for best original research.

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