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Christopher Young
Chairman of Heart Valve Voice (not Trustee)
St Thomas’ Hospital
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Monaco
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Victor Bautista-Hernandez
MD, PhD, MEBCTS, Cardiac Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine at Cristus Health/Santa Rosa
Texas, US
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Peyman Sardari Nia
Senior Consultant Cardio-thoracic Surgeon
Maastricht University Medical Center
Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Marco Solinas
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Monasterio Foundation Heart Hospital
Massa, Italy
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Alfred Kocher
Cardiac Surgeon
General Hospital Vienna
Medical University Vienna
Währingergürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna
Vienna, Austria
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Ruggero De Paulis
Rome, Italy
Director of Cardiac Surgery
Unicamillus International Medical University
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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 an 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.  Since 2020 he is Professor at the Unicamillus International Medical University in Rome. He has been EACTS President in 2018/2019.

His main interest is in aortic and mitral repair surgery. He is the designer of the “Valsalva” graft, currently used in most aortic root surgeries and co-designer of the “Physioflex “ring for mitral valve repair.

He has a large practice in treating aortic and mitral repair and aneurysmatic disease and is an internationally known specialist in aortic valve sparing and repair.

Positions of influence:
  • Chair of Cardiac Surgery: Unicamillus University
  • Associate Editor: Interactive Journal Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery
  • EACTS Council
  • EACTS Past President
  • STS/AATS member
Specialization:
Mitral
Aortic
Clinical involvement:

Principal investigator:

  • INDURE trial (Edwards)
  • ASCEND trial (Edwards)
  • REPLICATE trial (Edwards)
  • ROMA trial (Cornell University NYC)
Publications history:

347 scientific paper;
6191 citations;
h5-index: 43;
h5-index last 5 years: 23;

Languages:
IT
EN
FR
Topics of interests:
  • Aortic root surgery
  • Aortic valve sparing and repair
  • Mitral valve repair
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