Prof. Flavio Luciano Ribichini graduated in Medicine in 1986 at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. He was a fellow in Internal Medicine in Argentina from 1987 to 1988 and was board-certified in Cardiology at the University of Torino, Italy, in 1992. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Piemonte Orientale in 2002 and directed the Cardiovascular Interventional Unit of the Ospedale Maggiore della Carità di Novara until 2006. In 2006, he was nominated Associate Professor of the University of Verona and director of the Cardiovascular Interventional Unit of the Ospedale Maggiore di Verona, until 2017 he became Director of the Division of Cardiology. He is a member of the Task Force for the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization, a member of the Editorial Board of the European Society of Cardiology, and a member of the Public Relations Committee of the EAPCI (European Association Percutaneous Cardiac Interventions).
Prof. Giovanni Battista Luciani completed his Cardiovascular Surgery Residency at the University of Verona in 1993. After that, He spent two years at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, USC School of Medicine, for a Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and a Chief Residency in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. He started his career at the Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Verona, as an assistant surgeon in 1995, then as an Associate in 1998, and subsequently as Head of the Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit in 1999. He was appointed Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Verona in 2008 and was granted qualification for Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery in 2019. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Deputy Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Verona. In 2022, he was appointed Full Professor and Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Verona. He is a reviewer for over 30 international journals, an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pediatric Cardiology, and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Artificial Organs, and Frontiers in Surgery. His main research interests include congenital heart disease, advanced extracorporeal perfusion strategies, experimental imaging, and biomedical engineering applied to cardiovascular pathology.
