Director, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
St. Michael's Hospital
University of Toronto
Dr. Gianluigi Bisleri is a Staff Cardiac Surgeon, Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Director of Structural Heart Program at St. Michael’s Hospital; he is also Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and Investigator at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
Dr. Bisleri has extensive expertise in the full spectrum of adult cardiac surgery with a special expertise in the full spectrum of minimally invasive cardiac surgery: in particular, he has been focusing on developing less invasive approaches for cardiac valve repair and replacement as well as novel and advanced reconstruction techniques. Dr. Bisleri has established a novel minimally invasive cardiac program at St. Michael’s in 2021, and this has rapidly become the fastest growing MICS program and now the busiest in entire GTA, with a specific focus on complex valve repair and arrhythmia surgery. Dr. Bisleri is also an integral member of the Structural Heart Program at St. Michael’s Hospital with direct involvement in percutaneous treatment of valve disease (mitral, aortic, tricuspid), either for transcatheter valve repair or replacement . Dr. Bisleri has pioneered the totally endoscopic treatment of atrial fibrillation in 2005 and contributed to the introduction of the hybrid approach and combined epicardial/endocardial advanced mapping in combination with the Arrhythmia team (he is the only surgeon offering such approach in Canada to date); to date, he has performed the largest series of Cox Cryo-Maze procedures in Canada. Dr. Bisleri completed his medical education as well as cardiac surgical training in Italy: during his residency, he also further expanded his clinical and research interests in minimally invasive/robotic/arrhythmia surgery thanks to a research fellowship at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Bisleri has authored more than 155 peer-reviewed papers and more than 200 presentations at national/international meetings.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
14:00 – 14:45 EST
Saturday, October 28, 2023
15:30 – 15:40 EST