Dr Italo Porto is an Interventional Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Genova, Italy.
Dr Porto graduated in medicine with full honors in 1998 and at Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, Italy, where he also finished his General Medicine and Cardiology residency in 2002. From 2003 for more than 2 years he was Clinical and Interventional Fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, where his research resulted in several high-level scientific publications. His PhD was awarded by Universita 'Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome in 2006. In January 2006 he returned to Italy as Interventional Cardiologist at the Gemelli, where he joined the primary angioplasty rota and was responsible for the introduction of new imaging modalities in the cath lab. He also took responsibilities as a Clinical Cardiologist in the Intensive Care unit. His academic duties included teaching and training activities of both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervision of many graduation and PhD theses.
Dr Porto has extensive experience performing coronary angioplasty of all complexities, with a particular fondness for the radial approach.
