Dr. Galvani is Director of the Coronary Care Unit (National Health System) of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ospedale G.B. Morgagni, Forlì, Italy. He is scientific coordinator of Cardiovascular Research Unit of the Fondazione Cardiologica Sacco, Forlì, Italy. Dr. Galvani established experience in the management of CCU patients (including mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, IABP), echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, and permanent pacemaker implantation. Dr. Galvani was councilor in the National Board (1998-2000), General Secretary in the National Board (2000-2002), and secretary of the Scientific Committee (2002-present) of Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (ANMCO). He is currently president of the Italian Working Group on Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (2004-present). He is lellow of the Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (ANMCO) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Dr. Galvani is coordinator and member of the Steering Committee of multicentre national and international studies, responsible of the update of the national Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Unstable Angina, member of the Joint European Society of Cardiology/ American College of Cardiology Committee of the for the re-definition of Myocardial Infarction, now Global Task Force of Myocardial Infarction Redefinition (Biochemical panel). He is member of the Editorial Staff of the Bullettin of the Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri: Cardiologia negli Ospedali (from 2000 to 2002), and member of the Ethical Committee of the Azienda USL of Forlì (since 2003). He is also member of the Scientific Board of the Italian Heart Journal (official journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiology) (since 2003).
Dr. Galvani has been speaker or chairman in more than 200 scientific meetings, including: Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Annual Congress of the European Section of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry, National Congress of the Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (ANMCO), National Congress of the Società Italiana di Cardiologia (SIC), National Congress of the Società Italiana di Biochimica Clinica e Biologia Molecolare Clinica (SIBioC), National Congress of the Società Italiana di Medicina di Laboratorio (SIMeL), National Congress of the Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology. He is author/co-author of more than 250 scientific publications. More than 50 papers are published on “peer reviewed” journals with ISI impact factor. Author/co-author of 22 chapters in books, including the Italian Textbook of Cardiology.