INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Former Director of Cardiac Surgery St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital

Fellow Royal Australian College of Surgeons Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons

Interests:

Mitral valve repair
Thoracic aortic surgery
Off-pump (beating heart) coronary bypass surgery

Staff surgeon Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt

Member European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgeons

Interests:

Mitral Valve Surgery
Heart Valve Therapy
Mitral Valve Repair
Cardiomyopathy
Ischemic Mitral Valve regurgitation

Professor & Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Tokyo, Japan (TMDU)

Interests:

Off pump CABG
Mitral valve plasty
Ventricular Assist Device

Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Interests:

Electrophysiology
Cardiac Mapping
Ventricular Tachycardia
Atrial Fibrillation
Arrhythmia Surgery
Surgery for heart failure

Vice Chairman of Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic

Interests:

Ross operation
Left ventricular outflow tract
Homograft
Endocarditis
Gastroesophageal reflux
Heart & lung transplantation
Thoracic and Cardiovascular

Norman E. Shumway Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Bioengineering and of Surgery

Chairman of Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine (2014 - Present)

Interests:

Mitral and Aortic Valve Repair
Heart-Lung Transplantation
Complex Valve Repair Surgery
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Aortic root, Arch and Thoracoabdominal Reconstruction