Claudio Bussadori is Director of the Gran Sasso Veterinary Clinic and Researcher at the paediatric cardiology department of S.Donato Hospital in S.Donato Milanese.

He graduated as a Medical Doctor in 2001, thus becoming a human physician in addition to veterinary surgeon. He is Director of the ECVIM (European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Cardiology)

Residency programme in his clinic and he also gives seminars lecture on congenital heart diseases at Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan.

He was Vice President of the ECVIM between 1993 and 1999, ESVC President from 1997 to 1999. He has been an Honorary Member of the ESVC Board since 2002. His main fields of interest are diagnosis, epidemiology and interventional treatment of congenital heart diseases in dogs; echocardiography and pathophysiology of congenital cardiac diseases in humans and application of new echocardiographic technologies (2D Strain and 3D echocardiography) in human and veterinary cardiology.