Bologna Medical School (M.D. 1982)
General Surgery High School (Bologna Univ. 1982-1987)
Cardiac Surgery High School (Bologna Univ. 1987-1992)
Centre Paul Lamarque-Hopital Saint-Eloi, Montpellier (Ass. to Prof. H. Pujol, 1984-1985)
Hopital Laennec, Paris (Ass. to Prof. P.R. Vouhe'
Assistant, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa (1993)
Assistant, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, S. Orsola Hospital, Bologna (1994-1997)
U.C.S.F., S. Francisco, Dept. of Pediatric Cardiac Surg. (Visitor, 1996)
Associate, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesu'
Director , Unit of Arrthymia Surgery, DMCCP, Bambino Gesù, Rome
Neonatal repair of CHD
Heart transplantation
Surgical treatment of PA, IVS
Norwood palliation for HLHS