Dr. Porto graduated in medicine with full honors in 1998 and at Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, Italy, where he also finished his General Medicine and Cardiology residency in 2002. From 2003 for more than 2 years he was Clinical and Interventional Fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford (UK), where his research resulted in several high-level scientific publications. His PhD was awarded by Universita 'Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome in 2006. In January 2006 he returned to Italy as Interventional Cardiologist at the Gemelli, where he joined the primary angioplasty rota and was responsible for the introduction of new imaging modalities in the cath lab. He also took responsibilities as a Clinical Cardiologist in the Intensive Care unit. His academic duties included teaching and training activities of both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervision of many graduation and PhD theses.

From December 2011 he has moved to San Donato Hospital, Arezzo, Italy as Interventional Cardiologist in charge of the Cardiovascular Department research program and interventional imaging areas, while maintaining some academic duties at the Catholic University.

Dr. Porto has extensive experience performing coronary angioplasty of all complexities, with a particular fondness for the radial approach.

During his time in Rome and Arezzo, Dr Porto has managed to maintain an independent research activity with many national and international collaborations, resulting in over 130 publication indexed on Pubmed database, often in high impact factor journals. His current H-index is 22, with more than 1800 citations received.

He has won numerous awards and grants (both italian and international), including the Aventis Prize of the Italian Society of Cardiology in 2003, the London Interventional Prize in 2005, and the award for Best Abstract at GISE Congress Bologna 2009 and TCT San Francisco 2009. He also received two major competitive awards based on curriculum vitae: Young Leader Award, CRT congress Washington DC, USA, February 2010 and Best Young Researcher, GISE, Genoa in October 2010.

He is a frequently invited speaker at several italian and international conferences in the field of interventional and general cardiology. He is a reviewer for several journals (including Circulation, Circulation Interventions and European Heart Journal), is part of the Editorial Board of Interventional Cardiology, and since December 2011, of the Editorial Board of Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia.