Giuseppe Ristagno, M.D. 1998-2003 Degree in Medicine and Surgery 2003-2007 Residency in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2005-2007 Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, California 2009-2013 PhD in “Life and Biomolecular Sciences”, Open University, UK. From 2015 Head of the Laboratory of Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology, IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano; from 2012 Member of the “European Resuscitation Council” Basic Life Support Task Force; from 2013 Coordinator of the Italian Resuscitation Council Scientific Committe ; from 2013 Member of the Board of Società Italiana Terapia Intensiva from 2012 Member of the GdS area Emergenze, SIAARTI; 2008-2012 Assistant Professor, Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, California.

The activities of the Laboratory include both the preclinical experimental and the clinical reserach in the field of Emergency medicine. More specifically, the research focuses on investigating the mechanisms involved in the cardiac and cerebral injury after myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest. Thus, new treatments are investigated to reduce the cardiac and cerebral damage after cardiac arrest in the small (rat) and in the large animal (pig).