Curriculum Vitae
Scopus ID: 7005516149
Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health of the University of Padova; Director of the Cardiac Surgery Unit & Heart Transplant and MCS Programme, Padova University Hospital; and, in charge for the LIFE4HUB Research Program. Past President of the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2018-2020), President of the Italian College of Professor of Cardiac Surgery, he has been one of the invited Speaker at G7 Health on July 2024 in Genova. Prof. Gerosa is founder and director of the Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at University of Padova. He is co-inventor of 2 international patents: i) “Method for detecting a xenoantigen in fixed tissues used as bioprosthetic replacements”; ii) “Artificial Heart”.
Prof. Gerosa has performed the first implant in Italy of a Total Artificial Heart on November 2007 and the first DcD heart transplant in the world with a FWIT > 45 m’ on 23rd May, 2024.
He has been honoured with the title of Commendatore in 2017 and Grande Ufficiale in 2024 of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the President of the Republic.