Alessandro Boccanelli

Alessandro Boccanelli, medical doctor since 1971, specialized in Cardiology in 1974. He worked at the Cardiological Hospital of Ancona until 1979 and then at the S. Camillo Hospital of Rome from 1979 to 1998. Since 1992 he has been Director of Cardiology and from 1998 to 2013 he was Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases at the S. Giovanni Hospital in Rome. From 2002 to 2004 he was President of the National Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO) and since 2015 President of the Italian Society of Geriatric Cardiology (SICGe). In 2013 he founded the non-profit organization “Salute e Società,” which deals with welfare, and the relationship between health and social care (project “Come stai?”). He is author of around 300 scientific publications on national and international medical collections. Currently he is professor of Moral Philosophy at the “International UniCamillus University” of Rome.