Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai was born in San Remo, Italy, on 25 July 1974. He obtained his MD diploma magna cum laude at the University of Milan, Italy, in 1999 with a thesis on the comparison of diagnostic accuracy of different imaging tests for Takayasu arteritis. He completed compulsory military service in 2000 as Medical Officer in the 183rd Parachute Regiment of the Italian Army in Pistoia, Italy, as well as serving as Chief Medical Officer in the Task Force Falco of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in Dakovica, Kosovo. He then pursued specialist training in cardiovascular medicine, obtaining his Cardiologist diploma magna cum laude at the Catholic University, Rome, Italy, in 2004 with a thesis on a systematic review and meta-regression focusing on the early invasive management of acute coronary syndromes. In 2004-2005 he completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at the Invasive Cardiology Unit of St. Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy. He later worked as consultant cardiologist in the Cardiovascular Interventions Service of St. Donato Hospital, St. Donato, Italy, and of Abano Terme Hospital, Abano Terme, Italy. Since 2006 he has served as Assistant Professor, until 2010 in the Division of Cardiology of the University of Turin, Turin, Italy, during 2011 in the Division of Cardiology of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, and since late 2011 in the Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies of the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, where he is currently involved in both noninvasive and invasive cardiology, as well as clinical research. During his early years, he pursued further training as visiting researcher/physician at: Hopital Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France; Aintree Hospital, Liverpool; UK, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA; and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. He has also attended doctoral courses in biomedical statistics at the Biometrics and Medical Statistics Institute of the University of Milan, Italy. Among Dr. Biondi Zoccai's research interests are advanced biostatistical methods and evidence based medicine in cardiology, intracoronary stents, and the impact of inflammation in heart disease. Since 2003 he is member of the Heart Group of The Cochrane Collaboration, and in the same year he founded an international collaboration dedicated to meta-analysis and evidence-based cardiology training (METCARDIO, available online at metcardio.org). Within METCARDIO, he has been involved, as first author or coauthor, in more than 75 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, achieving with time a high degree of methodological expertise in this research field.

As a whole, he has coauthored more than 360 articles published on international medical journals and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, as well as several book chapters and hundreds of abstracts at international congresses. His international leadership in clinical research is testified by the high h index (40 in Google Scholar).

BIOSKETCH:
Mohamed Shoukri, Ph.D., FRSS

Adjunct Professor, Biostatistics

Department of Epiemiology and Biostatistics

Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario canada

After obtaining his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Shoukri spent two years as Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Simon Fraser University, and two years in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He then spent five years as tenured Associated Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Windsor. Thereafter he moved to the University of Guelph, Ontario Canada, and was promoted to full professor with tenure in 1993 in the Department of Population Medicine. Between 2005 and 2012 he was the Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing of The Research Center of King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 2012 and until his departure from the KFSHRC he was appointed the Head of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in the Department of Cell Biology in the National Biotechnology Center.

His methodological research includes contributions to the design and analysis of clinical studies, resulting in many publications in leading journals (280 full peer- reviewed papers). He is the sole author of the texts “Measures of Inter-observer Agreement and Reliability”, 1st and 2nd editions, and Analysis of Correlated Data with SAS and R,4th edition, and the senior co-author of four other biostatistics books, published by CRC-Taylor and Francis-Chapman & Hall. His research interests are focused on cluster randomization studies and the analysis of hierarchical data. Dr. Shoukri is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of London, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

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