Pasquale Strazzullo
Professor of
Internal Medicine at Federico II University of Naples Medical School
Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine and Hypertension and of
the Excellence Centre of Hypertension at Federico II University Hospitals and
Clinics
President of Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU)
Dr. Pasquale
Strazzullo, MD, FAHA. He has been member of the scientific council of the
Italian Society of Hypertension and has been in charge of many projects like
the Italian Society of Nutrition Working Groups for the preparation of the
Italian Guidelines for prevention and treatment of stroke (ISO-SPREAD), the
National Institute of Health Guidelines on Chronic Kidney Disease and the
Guidelines for Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Kidney Stone Disease. He
has also chaired the Working group on macro-minerals for preparation of the
2014 revision of the Dietary Reference Intakes for the Italian population
(LARN)
Presently, he is
coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Working Group for Reduction of Salt Intake
in Italy (GIRCSI), the Italian Society of Hypertension Working Group on Vitamin
D and Cardiorenal Disorders and the Interdisciplinary Working Group on
Nutritional Prevention and Therapy of Kidney Stone Disease. He is the Italian
Delegate in the WHO European Salt Action Network.
His broad areas of
interest are the role of nutrition in cardiovascular prevention, the
pathophysiology and clinical aspects of the disorders of mineral metabolism,
the metabolic and genetic bases of cardiovascular diseases. He has authored
over 300 publications most of which in peer-review international journals with
over 27000 citations and a Google Scholar H-index of 60.