Ottavio Alfieri

Ottavio Alfieri, Professor, M.D. Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedale San Raffaele Via Olgettina 60 Milan 20132 Italy 39 02 26437109 39 02 26437125 (Fax)

Specialty

• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Background

• Resident in Cardiac Surgery at Bergamo Hospital (1971)
• Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, USA (1973-1974)
• Research fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery at University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA (1977)
• Associate Cardiac Surgeon at S. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht (NL) (1980-1986)
• Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Civic Hospital of Brescia (1986-1996)
• Chief of Cardiac Surgery at S. Raffaele Hospital of Milan (1996 up to now)

Interests

• Coronary artery surgery
• Heart valve surgery (particurlarly reconstructive)
• Minimally invasive
• Robotic surgery
• Beating heart surgery