Antonio Raviele, MD, FESC, FHRS
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 from 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 Ospedale dell'Angelo 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, such as JACC, EHJ, HR, JCE, Europace, PACE, JICE, JAF, JCM, GIC, etc.
Apart from VeniceArrhythmias, he's also been promoting, organizing and coordinating 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.
Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS
Andrea Natale is the Co-President of VeniceArrhythmias.
After graduating with honors in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Florence in 1985, he specialized in Cardiology at the Catholic University of Rome, 1989.
He has been the Medical Director of the Center for Atrial Fibrillation and Head of the Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Section, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from 2005 to 2007, and is currently Executive Medical Director of the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas; he’s also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland , Ohio; Consulting Professor, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto California.
A pioneer in some of the present catheter based cures for atrial fibrillation,
Andrea Natale has also been the first cardiac electrophysiologist in the USA to perform percutaneous epicardial radiofrequency ablation.
Since 2004, he is named among the “Best Doctors in America”.
He is member of many prestigious societies, associations, task forces and foundations – such as HRS, AHA, HRF.
He has published more than 200 peer-review publications in the field of arrhythmias, and has been the editor and co-author of several books on arrhythmias.
His reviewing activity is highly representative, too, and involves several among the most important journals - PACE, The Official Journal of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, the American Journal of Cardiology and the American Heart Journal, to name but a few.
[Look at Andrea Natale’s Scientific Publications]
