Job title: Director, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery
Personal History
Dr Mick is the Director of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery and Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her interests are in robotically assisted cardiac surgery, percutaneous valve treatments and the team approach in cardiac disorders.1, 2
In her leisure time, she enjoys skiing, travel and music.1
Academic History
Dr Mick…
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Axel Unbehaun is a senior consultant in cardiac surgery at the German Heart Center Berlin, Germany. He assumes responsibility for transcatheter therapies in structural heart disease at the German Heart Center Berlin and at Charité University Hospital Berlin.
Since 2008, he has been continuously involved in establishing and advancing the local Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation program…
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Job title: Professor of Cardiac Surgery, and Chief, Department of Cardiac Surgery
Prof Ottavio Alfieri is Senior Consultant at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit of San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, IT. He is the President of the "Alfieri Heart Foundation," established to support research and innovation at San Raffaele Hospital. From 1996 to 2017, he served as the Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and held the position of Professor of…
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Job title: Director of Heart and Vascular Center
Dr Jose L Navia is the Director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Cleveland Clinic Florida; Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Florida; and the S. Donald Sussman Distinguished Chair in Heart and Vascular Research. Dr Navia is also Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Dr Navia earned his medical degree from the School of Medicine at the National University of…
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Job title: Associate director of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic at the Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany.
Associate director of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic at the Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. He has specialized in treating atrial fibrillation surgically since 2007 and inaugurated a surgical stand-alone LAA treatment program at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Harburg in 2016. He is the Head of the steering committee of the German Surgical ablation registry (CASE-AF), which started in 2016…
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Job title: Professor for Cardiac Surgery, University of Dresden
ProfDrMichael Knaut is a Professor for Cardiac Surgery atUniversity of Dresden.
He attended medical school atMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Since 1996, Prof Dr Knaut has worked at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Heart Centre, University of Dresden.
His scientific interests include rhythm surgery / surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, minimally…
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Job title: Director of Research and Special Projects
Personal History
Dr Michael Sol Firstenberg was born in 1968 and grew up in northeast Ohio.8
He is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Special Projects at the William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance and Assistant Professor of Surgery and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Integrative Medical Sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Outside of work, Dr Firstenberg…
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Prof Sacha Salzberg was born in Geneva, Switzerland on December 5th, 1970. He studied medicine at the Free University of Brussels and graduated in July 2000. After a general surgery residency in Brussels, Belgium, Dr Salzberg joined the University Hospital in Zurich to be trained by Professor Marko Turina in Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery. During this training, he was offered a post…
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Job title: Specialist in cardiac surgery
Specialist in cardiac surgery since 2014, Dr Maurizio Taramasso has completed his surgical training at the San Raffaele University Hospital in Milan, Italy. He has also done specific cross-training in interventional cardiology and heart valve transcatheter therapies (mitral and aortic) at the San Raffaele University Hospital. His main areas of interest include surgical and catheter treatments of…
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Job title: Head of Cardiac Surgery, Director of the Valve Center
Prof Maisano is Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Valve Center at San Raffaele Research Hospital in Milan.
Prof Maisano is acardiac surgeon with large experience in standard cardiovascular treatments and innovative technologies, as well as cross-trained in interventional cardiology, with specific focus on structural interventions.
In his research, Prof Maisano was the…
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