Prof Michele Brignole, FESC, the former Director of the Cardiology Department at Ospedali del Tigullio , Lavagna , Italy, is currently the coordinator of the Faint & Fall programme at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy. It’s main fields of research are diagnosis, pathophysiology, therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and catheter ablation of arrhythmias.
He also served as the chairman of the Guidelines on Syncope of the European Society of Cardiology (versions 2001, 2004, 2018) and chairman of the Guidelines on Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy of the European Society of Cardiology (version 2013) and member of Guidelines on Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy of the European Society of Cardiology (version 2021).