The Basic ElectroCardioGraphy Course is a 6 hours course offered to the students of Volta by Sergio Leonardi, a young professor of Cardiology at the University of Pavia. The Course will span three dates: January 26th, February 10th and February 24th 2022. Lectures will be held in English in the College lecture theatre at 6.00 pm. All medical students of Collegio A Volta, of both the Golgi and Harvey Course are warmly invited to attend the course. The poster of the Course is available here.
Course Synopsis
This 6-hour course aims to provide medical students the knowledge and skills necessary to perform systematic analyses of the normal ECG, of the most common normal variants, of the diagnostic principles of myocardial ischemia and infarction, and of the most important arrhythmias. Finally, rapid ECG interpretation in patients with acute cardiovascular disease will be discussed.
Biographical Sketch
Sergio Leonardi studied Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Pavia from 1999 to 2008) and worked at the Duke Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina from 2009 to 2012 and was awarded a Master of Health Science (MHS) degree by Duke University in 2012. He is a member of staff of Policlinico S Matteo since 2012 where he heads the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Centre from 2021 and a member of staff of the University of Pavia since 2018. He lectures undergraduate and graduate medical students at the University of Pavia on pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of patients with cardiovascular diseases and has an innovative and extensive research programme in clinical cardiology. He has contributed to a number of major clinical studies and has an outstanding record of published work in top medical journals (New Engl Med J, Lancet, etc).
Image
Courtesy of Digirad.
