Antonio Raviele, MD, FESC

Antonio Raviele is the President and Scientific Secretary of VeniceArrhythmias – the worldwide-known workshop he actually created back in 1989.

After graduating with honors in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Naples in 1971, he specialized in Cardiology at the University of Florence in 1974.
Through many years of professional activity, he has been in charge for 13 consecutive years (1995-2008) as Chief of the Cardiology Division and for 8 years (2000-2008) as Chief of the Cardiovascular Department of the Umberto I Hospital of Mestre - Venice, Italy.
He is currently Chief of the Cardiology Division and Chief of the Cardiovascular Department of the dell'Angelo Hospital of Mestre - Venice, Italy.

He has been the author of the first implant of transvenous defibrillator in Italy.

Antonio Raviele has always played key roles within many among the most important cardiology associations and societies – such as ECAS, ESC and HRS – while also providing fundamental contributions as the member of several task forces on related topics.

He isn’t only the author of more than 200 peer-review publications on many aspects of cardiac arrhythmias, but also the editor and supervisor of several books on arrhythmology. Besides, he’s a reviewer and member of the Editorial Board of some among the most renowned field journals and a reviewer and Co-chairman of the VeniceChart International Consensus Document on Atrial Fibrillation Ablation.

Apart from VeniceArrhythmias, he’s also been promoting, organizing and coordinating of numerous other scientific meetings in the field of arrhythmology – and has been participating in many more as Invited Speaker and Chairperson, both on a national and on an international level.

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