Laura Viola
BACKGROUND
August 2007 Observership in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Lenox Hill Hospital, New YorkAugust 2011 Observership in the Department of Adult and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami May 2010 – May 2015 Residency training program in Cardiac surgery at IRCCS Foundation Hospital S. Matteo, Pavia – Italy September 2015 – July 2016 Cardiothoracic registrar at the University Hospital Galway – Galway (Ireland) July 2016 – Febraury 2017 Cardiothoracic registrar at Blackrock Clinic – Dublin (Ireland).March 2017 – present Clinical Fellowship in cardiac surgery at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital – London (Uk)
OTHER INTERESTS
RESEARCH
September 2009-February 2010 Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the S. Giovanni Battista Hospital (Turin): Biads – Novel Biomaterials for intraoperative adjustable devices for the fine tuning of prostheses’ shape and performance in surgery.
November 2014 – March 2015 Collaboration with Braile Biomedica in performing experimental surgery to test new sutureless prosthesis and to design an aortic simulator for sutureless and tavi implantation
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2003-2009 MD at Università degli studi di Torino, Italy2010 – 2015 Cardiac surgery training – Università di Pavia, ItalySeptember 2014 – March 2015 Fellowship in the Department of Adult and Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil
