Biography

Gino Gerosa is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Padua Medical School. He is currently Chief of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Padua University Hospital and has been Director of the Residency School in Cardiac Surgery at the University of Padua Medical School. His fields of interest are: tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; ventricular assist devices; robotic surgery; surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation; beating heart surgery; homograft and autograft; follow-up of patients with heart valve prostheses. Professor Gerosa performed the first Italian robot enhanced coronary bypass on beating heart in 2001 and one of the first worldwide stem cell transplantation for post-ischemic cardiomyopathy in 2002. He also performed the first Italian implantation of the Cardiowest TAH in 2007. He is a Past President of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery and member of EACTS and AATS. He is co-author of more than 450 publications in International Journals with an H Index of 47 and several chapter of books. For his renowed experimental and clinical research and activity, he received several International prizes, as Alexis Carrel Award and Lifetime achievement of Heart Valve Society of America.