Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy. Assistant Adjunct Professor University of Alberta (Canada). Co-leader for the McGill coordination center of the GOING-FWD (https://www.mcgill.ca/going-fwd4gender/) Project. Co-Chair of the IMAGINE (Internal Medicine and Assessment of Gender differences in Europe) Working Group of the EFIM. Over the past 5 years, her principal research interests have focused on understanding sex and gender-specific issues in cardiovascular disease. She was the PI on a 5-year grant entitled “Sex and gender differences in ischemic heart disease: from bench to bedside - Endocrine Vascular Disease Approach (EVA),” at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, funded by the Scientific Independence of Young Researchers (SIR) Program, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) (2015-2020). She was awarded the Elizabeth Young Investigator Award from the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) in Atlanta, U.S.A. Her current work is aimed at establishing a transatlantic network of experts in gender medicine, internal medicine specialists, and outcomes researchers (GOING-FWD Consortium). This collaboration aims to identify appropriate measures of gender which can be feasibly applied to evaluate chronic noncommunicable diseases. From March 2020, she is part of the COVID-19 Mortality Group of the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) (https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-analysis-of-deaths) and she is an Italian researcher partner of the iCARE Study (https://mbmc-cmcm.ca/covid19/).