Prof. Riccardo Sarzani
Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the Università Politecnica delle Marche — the scientific advice behind Medyca's cardiometabolic assessment
He supports Medyca as scientific adviser in building the cardiometabolic assessment and fitting it into the Bioidentical Hormone Pathway: what is measured, how the results are read, when it makes sense to offer it. It is the contribution that extends Medyca's 360° approach to menopause to the heart, blood pressure and metabolism.
He is a Full Professor and decano (longest-serving professor) of Internal Medicine at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, where he directs the School of Specialisation in Geriatrics. At the IRCCS INRCA in Ancona he directs the “Area Medica” Department and the Clinica Medica e Geriatrica.
He directs the Marche Region reference centre for arterial hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the European Society of Hypertension, a Centre of the Società Italiana dell'Ipertensione Arteriosa and a LIPIGEN Centre of the Società Italiana per lo Studio dell'Aterosclerosi, as well as the Ambulatorio di Medicina Cardiometabolica del Sovrappeso (cardiometabolic medicine clinic for overweight).
He is a specialist in cardiology with a PhD in endocrine and metabolic sciences. His research covers arterial hypertension (from molecular pathophysiology to clinical practice), obesity and metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular medicine and geriatrics. He has been principal investigator in more than 25 multicentre clinical studies and is the author of about 200 publications in international journals.
Prof. Sarzani and Dr Lucia Stella work with Medyca to extend the assessment of the Bioidentical Hormone Pathway to metabolic health and cardiovascular risk.
Training and positions
- Full Professor and longest-serving professor of Internal Medicine — Università Politecnica delle Marche (since 2020)
- Director of the “Area Medica” Department — IRCCS INRCA, Ancona (since 2026)
- Director of the U.O.C. Clinica Medica e Geriatrica — IRCCS INRCA, Ancona (since 2016)
- Director of the School of Specialisation in Geriatrics — Università Politecnica delle Marche
- Director of the Marche Region reference centre for arterial hypertension and cardiovascular diseases — Centre of Excellence of the European Society of Hypertension, SIIA Centre, LIPIGEN Centre of the SISA
- Specialist in Cardiology · PhD in Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences
- Adjunct Assistant Research Professor of Medicine — Boston University School of Medicine (1987–1990)
- Lecturer in Clinica Medica (clinical medicine) and Semeiotica Medica (medical semeiotics), and in the course on the methodology for assessing global cardiovascular risk — Università Politecnica delle Marche
Research and scientific societies
- About 200 publications in international journals, mostly as first or last author
- Scopus: 201 indexed documents, 6,442 citations, h-index 44 (data as of 27 March 2026)
- Principal investigator in more than 25 multicentre clinical studies, national and international
- Member of the national executive board of the Società Italiana dell'Ipertensione Arteriosa (SIIA)
- President of the Marche section of the Società Italiana dell'Obesità (SIO)
- Research areas: arterial hypertension from molecular pathophysiology to clinical practice, obesity and metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary medicine, geriatrics, endocrine-metabolic, molecular, cellular and genetic medicine