Dr. Lorenzo Azzalini is an exciting addition to our star studded cast of complex coronary interventionalists.   Lorenzo Azzalini, MD PhD MSc FACC FSCAI is an interventional cardiologist and Director of Interventional Cardiology Research at UW Medical Center - Montlake.  He has published over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, received numerous international awards, is member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Eurointervention, Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, and Minerva Cardiology and Angiology, and is guest reviewer for other twenty journals.  In his free time, Dr. Azzalini enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, cooking, and sailing.

0:55 - A Global Perspective of Medicine
9:55 - Passion for Research
14:30 - Where is percutaneous interventional research today?
22:30 - Era of the siloed interventionalist is over
27:10 - Atherectomy
38:05 - Twitter and the Impact of Information Sharing
51:00 - A word of advice for an aspiring researcher
54:15 - Signing off in 4 Languages

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