EDITORIAL ACTIVITY: Past Executive Editor of Journal of Hypertension, Associate Editor of Hypertension Research, Associate Editor of European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (responsible for Hypertension Session); Editorial Board member of many International Cardiovascular Journals.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment of heart failure and arterial hypertension, blood pressure measurement, blood pressure variability, sleep and sleep related breathing disorders, cardiovascular effects of altitude exposure (HIGHCARE PROJECTS on Alps, Himalaya/Mount Everest and Andes), arterial wall properties and arterial stiffness, space research on microgravity (NASA, ESA), telemedicine, digital and mobile health technologies, validated application for smartphones, cardiac imaging, neural control of the cardiovascular system.

MEMBERSHIP: President Elect and Executive Board member of the World Hypertension League. Member of European Society of Cardiology (ESC), European Society of Hypertension (ESH), International Society of Hypertension (ISH), Italian Society of Hypertension (SIIA), Italian Society of Cardiology (SIC). Chairperson and Nucleus member of the Council on Hypertension of the ESC; Nucleus member of the e-Cardiology Working Group of ESC; Past Chairman of the Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring of SIIA. Past Chairman of the Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability of ESH. Honorary Member of the Latin American Society of Hypertension (LASH), Venezuelan Society of Cardiology, Venezuelan Society of Hypertension, Peruvian Society of Cardiology, Polish Hypertension Society, British and Irish Hypertension Society, Romanian Society of Cardiology, Hungarian Society of Hypertension.

Past President of the Italian Society of Hypertension (SIIA), past President of the Foundation of the SIIA, past Chairman of the Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability of the ESH, Fellow of the ESC. Prof. Parati is regular invited speaker at annual ESC, ESH, EACP, ISH, WHL, LASH, SIC, SIIA scientific meetings.

AWARDS: 2004 Lecturer of the Year (Belgian Universities and Belgian Hypertension League), 2005 Forum P.A. (Forum Pubblica Amministrazione) award excellence in Health Care Services endorsed by the Italian Ministry of Health for Telemedicine in Heart Failure. 2015 ESH “Bjorn Folkow Award and Lecture” for excellence in research on Hypertension pathophysiology. 2017 appointed as Honorary Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. 2019 Pickering Lecture Award at the British and Irish Hypertension Society Annual Meeting. 2021 Distinguished Fellow Award of the International Society of Hypertension. 2021 Appointed as Miembro Correspondiente Extranjero por Italia de la Academia Nacional de Medicina (ANM) Venezuela; 2022 Tigerstedt Award, Finnish Hypertension Society. American Physiological Society Award for best 2021 Clinical Physiology paper on Impact of COVID-19 on exercise pathophysiology. A combined cardiopulmonary and echocardiographic exercise study; American Heart Association Award for Best Clinical paper on Hypertension 2021; 2022 Honorary Lecture at the Hungarian Society of Hypertension National Congress.; 2023 Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Society of Hypertension; 2023 Honorary membership of the Romanian Society of Cardiology.

–PUBLICATIONS and metrics: 1.615 publications, 147 H-Index and 117.544. Orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-7439