Martino Pengo MD PhD

Consultant Physician and Senior Researcher
Department of Cardiovascular, Neural, and Metabolic Sciences
IRCCS Istituto Auxologico
Assistant Professor, University of Milano Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Dr. Martino Pengo graduated in Medicine from the University of Padua, where he completed his training in Internal Medicine. During his residency, he started conducting clinical research studies in the field of cardiovascular prevention and arterial hypertension. He then moved to the UK for a fellowship at King's College London, where he managed to expand his research and clinical interests to the interactions between sleep/sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease. He successfully completed the Expert Somnologist examination issued by the European Society of Sleep Research. In 2016, he completed his International PhD program on “Arterial hypertension and vascular biology." He moved back to Italy as he was appointed consultant physician and senior researcher at the Department of Cardiovascular, Neural, and Metabolic Sciences, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Milano). He also holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Milano Bicocca.