Gavino Casu is Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Sassari, Director of the Clinical and Interventional Cardiology Unit at the University Hospital of Sassari, and Director of the Postgraduate School in Cardiovascular Diseases. His clinical, scientific, and organisational activities encompass interventional cardiology, pulmonary hypertension, atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention, cardiac channelopathies, cardiac rehabilitation, digital health, and the development of organisational models for telemedicine. He is involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of care pathways integrating hospital, community, and home-based services through teleconsultation, remote monitoring, telecare, and telerehabilitation. He coordinates multidisciplinary initiatives that incorporate digital platforms, wearable devices, and technologies such as augmented and virtual reality into diagnostic, therapeutic, and care pathways, with particular attention to appropriateness, continuity of care, personalisation, sustainability, and the transferability of organisational models. Recipient of several research awards, he is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and Regional President of the Italian Society of Telemedicine. He is the author of 160 documents indexed in Scopus, with 3,614 total citations and an H-index of 29.
