Puddu, Vittorio, MD (1909-1991)

Time Period: 1960

Vittorio Puddu was the principal investigator of the Italian segment of the Seven Countries Study from its origins. A leading Roman cardiologist of his day, he was later the President of the International Society of Cardiology. He was one of the first European academic cardiologists to embrace the disciplines of cardiovascular disease epidemiology and preventive cardiology and forward them in his medical community and internationally.