IRCCS Policlinico San Donato
Adult Cardiac
Member Since: 2005
Biography:
Dr. Lorenzo Menicanti is Director of the Adult Heart Surgery Area at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in Milan, where he also holds the position of Scientific Director. He has worked at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato since 1988 and in 1990 he was appointed Head of the Cardiac Surgery Division.
He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome (1975) and obtained his specialisation in Urology in 1979. He specialised in Pediatric Surgery in Verona and in Cardiac Surgery in Padua. In 1990 he obtained his Master's as Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Chief of Cardiac Surgery.
He was Assistant chef de Clinique at the University of Marseilles in 1980 and he completed his surgical training in prestigious American and English universities and hospitals.
During his career he has personally performed over 17,000 major heart operations, both for congenital pathologies and for acquired pathologies, contributing to making Policlinico San Donato a reference center at national and international level.
Since 1987 he has been Consultant of the Cardiothoracic Center of Monaco (Principality of Monaco) and has been Visiting Professor in many universities, including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, the University of Beijing in China, and the University of Tokyo in Japan. He has also been visiting Lecturer at the NYU Langone Health.
He was President of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery (SICCH), he was Co-chairman of the Surgical Committee of the STITCH Clinical Study for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (United States), as well as a member of the American Association Thoracic Surgery (AATS). In 1994 he was appointed Knight of the Italian Republic.
In November 2020 he assumed the position of President of the Cardiological Network, the largest Italian research network in the cardiovascular field.
What Does the AATS Mean to You:
The most important cardiovascular Association in the world
My First Experience with AATS:
Long time ago my fist presentation at the AATS meeting
Why I became an AATS member:
To be part of an outstanding community
The most impactful presentation I have seen at an AATS meeting:
Professor Buckberg's presentation in cardiac physiology
The first presentation I gave is:
Surgical Ventricular Restoration
The topic most important to advancing the field of CT Surgery is:
Analysing in a correct and honest way the results of different therapies, freely from economical conditioning"
My career in CT Surgery was inspired by:
The great example of outstanding surgeons in this field
The biggest impact my mentor had on my career is:
He gave me an inctelectual and technical method to proceed
The topic most important to advancing the field of CT Surgery is:
Analysing in a correct and honest way the results of different therapies, freely from economical conditioning
The most pressing issues impacting CT surgery are:
The appropriateness of surgical and interventional procedures
Advice for Trainees:
To honest, free in judgement, devoted to profession, non involved in the mainstream