Director Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Zurich Head of the Heart Center of the Zurich University Hospital University Hospital Zurich

-Affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zürich

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 1990 MD Degree – Thesis “Parenteral nutrition in the intensive care unit ” (University of Rome – Catholic University of the Holy Heart)
• 1994 Special Postgraduate Fellowship, University of Alabama Birmingham, Alabama USA
• 1995 Cardiac Surgery License – Thesis “Surgery for severe left ventricular dysfunction” (University of Rome – Università La Sapienza)
• 2014 Appointed Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery (University of Zürich)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017- Director of the University Heart Center of Zurich
2014- Clinic Director of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University hospital Zurich – Switzerland
2013-2014 Director of Transcatheter Valve Treatment program at the University hospital Zurich – Division of Cardiovascular Surgery – Zurich, Switzerland
2009-2013 Director of Transcatheter Valve Treatment program at San Raffaele University Hospital – Italy
1997-2009 Staff heart surgeon at the San Raffaele University Hospital – Milan, Italy
1995-1997 Staff heart surgeon at the Ospedale Civile di Brescia – Brescia, Italy
1995-1995 Staff heart surgeon at the Clinica Pinna Pintor – Turin, Italy
1994-1994 Post-Graduate Fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham – Alabama USA