Affiliation: Institute of Sport Sciences and Health of Paris (I3SP), School of Sport Sciences of the université de Paris

Dr. Damien Vitiello is an associate professor at the School of Sports Sciences of the Université de Paris. He did his PhD at the LAPEC lab at the University of Avignon, France, in cardiac fatigue in humans and animals. He has also completed two postdoctoral fellowships: one at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) in Montreal, Canada, and the other at the Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud (HESAV) in Lausanne, Switzerland. During these three years, Dr. Vitiello has worked on cardiac rejection, immunology, exercise, hypoxia, training, and stroke-related projects. He is determined to explore pathophysiological mechanisms leading to cardiovascular diseases; and physiological mechanisms leading to improved cardiovascular physiology. He hopes to develop novel non-drug therapies (i.e., adapted physical activities programs) and training plans (e.g., hypoxia) to treat and prevent chronic diseases and enhance an athletes’ performance. His global ambition is to improve people’s health.