Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio

Professor of Donor Health, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Professor Di Angelantonio trained as a physician in cardiovascular medicine, in Italy and France, and he is registered with the UK General Medical Council as a specialist in general internal medicine. After completing his specialist training, Professor Di Angelantonio gained an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2005 and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in 2009. In 2010, he was appointed as University Lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, and in 2017 to a Readership in Translational Epidemiology. Since 2018, he is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, and Deputy-Director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Since 2020 he is co-chairing the European Society of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk Collaboration.

Professor Di Angelantonio has made many seminal observations addressing major clinical and public health priorities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and transfusion medicine. Overall, Di Angelantonio’s ~250 papers have attracted >51,000 citations (H-index=88).