– Affiliation:
Chairman at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Ospedale del Cuore, Fondazione Toscana G.Monasterio, Massa-Pisa, Italy

M.D. degree, magna cum laude, University of Bologna: 1994
Residency in Cardiac Surgery, University of Bologna: 1999
Consultant at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Ospedale del Cuore, Fondazione Toscana G.Monasterio, Massa, Italy, 2000-2014.
Consultant at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Imperial College University, Hammersmith Campus, London; 2010-2011.
Senior Lecturer at Cardiac Surgery Department of the Imperial College University, London; 2010-2015
Chairman at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Ospedale del Cuore, Fondazione Toscana G.Monasterio, Massa-Pisa, Italy, 2014-present.
Director of the II level Master Innovation in cardiac surgery: advances in minimally invasive therapeutics-Institute of Life Sciences of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna