Director and Chair
European Hospital
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Ruggero De Paulis is the Director of the Cardiac Surgery Department of the European Hospital in Rome, a position he has held since 2006. After graduating from the University of L’Aquila and completing his residency at the University of Torino, he spent two years in the Artificial Heart Programme at the University of Utah, and then two years as staff surgeon at the VI and XII University of Paris. Since then, he has been working in Rome, at the University of Tor Vergata, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 2002. In 2006 he became the Director at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the European Hospital in Rome. In 2018 he has been appointed Associate Professor at the Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbiterian Hospital. In 2020 he has been appointed at the Unicamillus Medical International University in Rome. His main interest is in aortic and mitral repair surgery and he is the designer of the “Valsalva” graft, currently used in most aortic root surgeries and the co-designer of the new “Physioflex” ring for mitral repair. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of the ICVTS. He has been EACTS Chairman of the Vascular Domain from 2014 to 2017. He has served as EACTS President in the period 2018-2019. He is currently the Chairman of the Francis Fontan Fund at the EACTS.
He has authored more than 250 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals.
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