Enrico Agabiti-Rosei has been a professor of internal medicine at the University of Brescia (Italy) since 1990. He is director of the Clinica Medica at the University of Brescia and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Azienda Spedali Civili, University Hospital of Brescia, Italy. He graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Perugia and specialized in cardiology and internal medicine at the University of Pisa. He has lectured internationally on topics related to hypertension and cardiovascular diseases and has been responsible for organizing official workshops and symposia for the European Society of Hypertension, and of the European Society of Cardiology. He was president of the European Society of Hypertension and the Italian Society of Hypertension, and chairman of the European Society of Cardiology’s working group Hypertension and the Heart. He was also a member of the European Society of Cardiology Science Council and the European Council for Cardiovascular Research’s Executive Committee. He received the ESH Peter Sleight Award in 2011.
Franco Mantero graduated cum laude in Medicine at the University of Padua Medical School. He then specialised in Endocrinology at University of Florence, in Radiology, Nephrology and Internal Medicine at the University of Padua. He has been scientific secretary of several International Meetings on Adrenal and Pituitary and Endocrine Hypertension, editor of several books about special Issue on adrenals and hypertension. Memeber of many scientifical internation societies, he is also in the editorial board of many international journals and published more than 500 papers.
Franco Mantero graduated at the University of Padua and specialized in Endocrinology, Nephrology, Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. He trained at the UH of Geneva (Switzerland) and at the CRC of the UCSF(USA). After his return to Padua he established a national referral center for adrenal diseases. His primary research interests are mineralocorticoid hypertension, Cushing’s Syndrome, adrenal tumors. He has been professor of Endocrinology and chair of the Division of Endocrinology of the Padua University Hospital. He organized International Meetings on Adrenal and Endocrine Hypertension, and lectured in Meetings of the European Society of Endocrinology, Endocrine Society(USA), International Society of Endocrinology, and European Society of Hypertension. He is editor of several books on adrenals and hypertension. Member of the steering committee of many scientific societies (including International Society of Endocrinology, International Aldosterone Conference) and co-founder of the European Study Group on Adrenal Tumors (ENSAT). He is also in the editorial board of many international journals and published more than 500 papers.
