Fellow of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health, Castelnuovo Magra, Italy.

Aurelio Leone was born in Roma, Italy, on July 21, 1942. A physician and researcher, he had his first job at the Pathological Institute of the University of Roma, Italy. In 1969, he worked as a medical researcher in Pisa, Italy, at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, and then as a clinical cardiologist in La Spezia, Italy, from 1973 to 1985. Director of the Medical Division of Pontremoli City Hospital, Italy, from 1985 to 1999, he was Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine at City Hospital in Massa, Italy, from 1999 to 2002. At present, he is an independent researcher; Fellow of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health, London, UK (FRSPH); and Fellow of the American Society of Hypertension (FASH), as well as a member of the World Heart Federation (WHF).