Maruizio Pieroni, M.D., Ph.D. is currently a cardiologist in the Cardiovascular Department at San Donato Hospital in Arezzo, Italy and holds an appointment at the Institute of Cardiology, Catholic University in Rome, Italy.
Dr. Pieroni attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Medical School, where he graduated with honors in 1997. He continued at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, School of Cardiology, where he graduated with honors in 2001, and where he also became an Advanced Cardiac Life Support provider. In 2005, he obtained a Ph.D. in Human Pathology from La Sapienza University of Rome. He obtained his medical license in Italy in 1997 and was certified by the Italian equivalent of the Cardiology Board in 2001.

Dr. Pieroni is a member of the Italian Federation of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the Editorial Board of the Italian Journal of Cardiology, as well as other professional associations. He has been a research fellow, as well as a participating investigator or co-investigator on numerous research studies. He is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the European Heart Journal, the American Heart Journal, and Journal for the American Society of Echocardiography.

Dr. Pieroni received the Scientific Research Award from Aventis Foundation in 2001. He was a finalist at the Young Investigator Award in Clinical Science at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, and the winner of the Young Investigator Award in 2005. He is also included in the Highlights Sessions of the European Society of Cardiology in 2003, as well as Scientific Sessions of the Congress of the American Heart Association in 2003. He has over seventy original publications in scientific journals as well as numerous additional publications. He has presented and lectured extensively on an international level.