Deputy Director - Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department
Maastricht University Medical Centre
Maastricht, Netherlands
- Staff Member, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands (October 2015-till now)
- Young Investigator Award (EACTS) (1995).
- Post-Graduate Diploma (Artificial Heart & Mechanical Circulatory Support), Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France (at the La Pitiè Hospital)(1995-1996)
- PhD, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1998)
- Master on Health Care Management, LUISS University, Rome, Italy (Health Care Management), 2006-2007
- Master on Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy (Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery), 2014-2015
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Cardiology (2004 – 2016), Journal of Cardiac Surgery (from 2018) and of Artificial Organs (from 2021).
- Editor-in-Chief, The Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, EACTS (from January 2016-till now).
- Scientific Secretary of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery (2008-2009)
- Director, School of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) (Bergamo, Italy) (2009-2012),
- Conference Chair (2012-2014) and Steering Committee Member, Euro-ELSO,
- President, Euro-ELSO (2015-2017),
- Global Chapter Leader, Member of the ELSO Executive Committee (2015-2017)(2019-till now)
- Member of the ELSO Executive Committee (from 2018),
- Chair of the EACTS/ELSO/STS/AATS Task Force for the Expert Consensus paper n Post-Cardiotomy ECLS in Adult Patients,
- Chair of the ELSO Task Force for the Interim Guidelines on Adult Cardiac ECLS (in progress for submission),
- Fellow of the Extra-Corporeal Life Support Organization (FELSO)(from 2018)
- Member of the Nucleus of the Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group, European Society of Cardiology (2016-2018)
- ECLS Program Director, Heart & Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands (from October 2015)
- Associate Professor, Maastricht University (2017-2018)
- Full Professor, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2019-till now)
- Deputy Director – Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (from February 2020-till now)
- Principal Investigator of several multicentre international studies.
Nothing to disclose.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM PT