Milan Medical School (M.D. 1987)
Milan University Vascular Surgery Residency (1987-1992)
UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Fellow (1993-1994)
Pavia San Matteo Hospital Attending Cardiac Surgeon (1995-2001)
UCSD Divisions of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Visitor (2000)
Pavia University Associate Professor Cardiac Surgery (since 2002)
Pulmonary hypertension
Heart transplantation
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (mini-sternotomy, port-access)
Mechanical circulatory assistance
Conservative surgery for heart failure
Heart-lung transplantation
Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
Lung transplantation