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.

See Dr. Azzalini's research