Francesco Cosentino, Sweden

Professor of Cardiology, Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital,Stockholm, Sweden

Prof. Francesco Cosentino obtained his MD degree and postgraduate trainings in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Rome, Italy. In 1991 he moved to Mayo Clinic & Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA for a Cardiovascular Fellowship. During his stay there he fulfilled all the requirements for a PhD in Biomedical Sciences – Cardiovascular Pharmacology. In 1995, he joined the Cardiovascular Division at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. Two years later, Prof. Cosentino moved to the Division of Cardiology of Zurich University Hospital as “lecturer” and then “titular professor” of Cardiology. In 2006, he was appointed associate professor of Cardiology at the University “Sapienza” of Rome. Since 2013, he is full professor of Cardiology at the Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.

Prof. Cosentino has been Vice-President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Chair of 2019 ESC/EASD Guidelines on Diabetes, Prediabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases. He has been the lead for the reviewers’ panel of the 2023 ESC Guidelines on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases. Prof. Cosentino is Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal and Consulting Editor of Cardiovascular Research Journal. He is past-chair of ESC Advocacy Committee and current chair of ESC Cardiopolicy Group. Prof. Cosentino is the recipient of grants and awards from national and international institutions, research councils and private foundations. He is the leading author of more than 250 original articles published in top-ranking, peer-reviewed journals.

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