Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Parma
Director of the U.O.C. of Cardiac Surgery of the A.O.U. of Parma;Director of the School of Specialization in Cardiac Surgery (UNIPR); Director of the Cardio Thoraco Vascular Department of the A.O.U. of Parma.

Surgical and scientific fields of interest Are: Valvular, coronary, and major aortic heart surgery, extracorporeal circulation techniques and cardiocirculatory assistance, myocardial protection during cardiac surgery. Author or Co-author of 4 scientific texts, of 170 international scientific publications, H-index 29, 2379 citations (Scopus database, www.scopus.com) (June 12, 2023). Author or co-author of 19 publications in national journals and 75 congress abstracts. Surgical experience of over 1800 cardiac surgeries as first operator.