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5 reviews
June 14, 2024
Very Kind, caring Dr.
April 28, 2024
Dr Azzalini was patient, and extremely informative about potential procedures risks, benefits, etc.
August 31, 2023
Dr. Azzalini is very knowledgeable and skilled and explained in layman's terms what I needed to know to make an informed decision.
June 29, 2023
PA and physician were excellent. Listened to my questions and explained follow up well. They knew I was educated based on my questions, so topic me seriously.
June 11, 2023
Amazing care. It was reassuring to have talked to an expert and get clarification on a treatment path.
About Lorenzo Azzalini
Lorenzo Azzalini, MD PhD MSc FACC FSCAI is an interventional cardiologist specialized and complex and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention. Dr. Azzalini is the Director of Interventional Cardiology Research at UW Medical Center - Montlake.
Dr. Azzalini strives to provide a personalized approach to patient care, so that his patients can choose the best treatment plan according to their conditions, needs, and values. His number one goal is to help patients return to the activities they enjoy the most, and improve their quality of life.
Dr. Azzalini's clinical interests include complex and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), chronic total occlusions, atherectomy, ultra-low contrast PCI, and mechanical circulatory support for high-risk PCI.
He graduated magna cum laude from University of Padua in Italy in 2006. He subsequently completed cardiology training, a master’s degree in research methodology and a PhD in medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. He completed two fellowships in interventional cardiology at the Montreal Heart Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Before joining UW he was Director of Complex Coronary Interventions at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA.
His clinical and research expertise is represented by chronic total occlusion PCI, atherectomy, mechanical circulatory support, acute kidney injury after PCI, and vascular access. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed manuscripts, received numerous international awards, is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Eurointervention, International Journal of Cardiology, 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.