Francesco Costa is an Interventional Cardiologist at Messina University Hospital , Italy. He obtained his medical degree and residency in Cardiology with Summa cum Laude at the University of Messina, Italy. He completed a research fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and obtained the title of PhD at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 2018. He trained and obtained a Master Degree in interventional cardiology at the Hospital Clinic, in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Costa has been appointed Ambassador of the EAPCI Young initiative for Italy from 2016 to 2018, Grant winner for the EAPCI and ESC training and research activities in 2017, and editorial board member of PCRonline and Circulation:Cardiovascular Interventions in 2018. He has been part of the task force of the European Society of Cardiology for the guidelines on dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with coronary artery disease published in 2017, and the Academic Research Consortium for non-adherence in clinical trials published in 2019. Dr. Costa owns medical board license for Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.