Professor Giuseppe Boriani Graduation in Medicine and Specialisation in Cardiology at the University of Bologna. PhD in Cardiovascular Physiopathology at the University of Milan. Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Chief of Cardiology, Modena University Hospital Fellow of ESC and of EHRA, Member of the Heart Rhythm Society. Former Member of the Board of EHRA and Chair of the Health Economics Committee (2009-2013). President (2016-2018) of the of AIAC (the Italian Society of Cardiac Pacing and Arrhythmology). Scientific activity focused on clinical electrophysiology, pace-makers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy, atrial fibrillation, antiarrhythmic drugs, health economics and clinical cardiology. Member of the Editorial board of the European Heart Journal and of the European Journal of Heart Failure.