Dr. Angelo Auricchio serves as the Director of the Heart Failure Program and Clinical Electrophysiology Unit at the Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino in Lugano, Switzerland.
His focus is on cardiac catheterization and cardiac electrophysiology. His main areas of research are in clinical electrophysiology - mapping techniques in dilated cardiomyopathies, non-pharmacological therapy of arrhythmias - and non-pharmacological therapies for heart failure. Moreover, he serves as a Co-Director at the Center for Computational Medicine in Cardiology at Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. He has been a Professor of Cardiology at University Hospital in Magdeburg, Germany since 2008. He also serves as Scientific Director at the Fondazione Ticino Cuore. Dr. Auricchio is also a part-time professor in Cardiology at the University of L’Aquila (Italy). He was the President of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). Dr. Auricchio is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, 6 books, and more than 20 book chapters. Dr. Auricchio received his medical degree from medical school in Naples (Italy) and a Ph. D. in Cardiovascular Physiology from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). He completed his fellowship in Cardiology at Federico II - University of Naples, Italy.