Organizing Committee Member
Marco Piciche
Cardiac Surgeon
San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
Italy
Biography
Marco Piciche (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He has worked as an assistant at Saint Luc Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels from 1999 to 2001, as a clinic head/hospital assistant at the universities of Clermont-Ferrand from 2003 to 2004 and Montpellier from 2004 to 2007. He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007). In Canada he authored a research project on -Noncoronary collateral circulation, which was submitted to the annual research competition at Quebec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, and received the competitions highest grant. In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book: Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures: research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology (Springer-Verlag publishing house). Currently he is a consultant cardiac surgeon in Italy.
Research Area
Cardiology