The founder of a key European association

Female cardiologists prepared to sacrifice a family for a career are doing well in Italy, according to Maria Grazia Modena, MD, FESC, past-president of the Italian Society of Cardiology and chief, Institute of Cardiology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. But she is frustrated that some of her colleagues seem more interested in medical politics than cooperation. She talks to Barry Shurlock, MA, PhD