About

I am an interventional cardiologist at Einstein Hospital Israelita in São Paulo, Brazil, where I have worked since 2021. I am a PhD candidate in two programs: at the Albert Einstein Faculty of Health Sciences (FICSAE, São Paulo, Brazil) and at Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy).

On this site I publish critical reviews of scientific papers and posts on statistics, clinical research and computing.

Training

• MD, Botucatu Medical School (UNESP), 2011.
• Residency in internal medicine (2013–2015), cardiology (2015–2017) and interventional cardiology and hemodynamics (2017–2019) at the Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo.
• Board certified in cardiology (SBC, 2017) and in interventional cardiology (SBHCI/AMB, 2019). TAVI certification (SBHCI/SBCCV/AMB).

Research

• Intravascular imaging (IVUS and OCT) and plaque inflammatory phenotype.
• Coronary physiology (FFR, iFR, QFR, μFR).
• Pre-TAVI computed tomography and coronary assessment.
• Calcium modification: intravascular lithotripsy and rotational atherectomy.
• Drug-coated balloons.
• Computational modeling of coronary geometry and blood flow.

I have 19 publications from 2018 to 2026, including papers in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, EuroIntervention and Coronary Artery Disease. I have presented at EuroPCR every year from 2022 to 2026. Awards: best abstract at the SBHCI Congress 2025 (FIRE-OCT study) and at EuroPCR RioValves 2025 (TACT study).

Statistics and computing

I have liked computers for as long as I can remember. I started programming in BASIC at age 7 and earned my first money with it at 13. Since then I have used Visual Basic, FoxPro, Delphi, HTML, JavaScript, C# and, today, Python. For about 30 years I have also been the IT person for friends and family. I now use Claude Code to write software, and some of the results are published in the Computing section.

• Applied biostatistics in R and Python.
• Research software for IVUS, FFR and μFR, computational modeling of blood flow, and neural networks.
• Software for data curation and statistical analysis.

Peer review

Reviewer for EuroIntervention, European Heart Journal, BMC journals and Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia.

Contact

• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: stefano-garzon
• Instagram: @garzonstefano
• X: @stefano_garzon