ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda

Dr. Ferrari received his degree in 2004 from the University of Pavia in Italy.  He was hired as a Research Scientist at New York University after receiving his Ph.D., and he started a number of studies there looking into the causes of aortic valve remodeling and calcification.After thereafter, he became a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, where he created the Cardiovascular Translational Research program. The program's goal is to combine clinical research and molecular and cellular biology to study cardiovascular illnesses. For more than five years, he has been in charge of this UPENN program. Author of more than fifty scholarly articles, Dr. Ferrari has received numerous awards from federal and private scientific bodies. He reviews work for some of the most esteemed scientific groups and magazines. He belongs to both the Society of Heart Valve Disease and the American Heart Association. In addition to holding two US patents for the detection and treatment of vascular and valvular illnesses, he has presented his research both domestically and abroad. In addition, Dr. Ferrari leads the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery's Human Tissue Collection Program as its principal investigator.

.Prof. Massimo Torre works is a consultant thoracic surgeon at ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda in Milan. He graduated from the University of Milan in March 1981 with a degree in Medicine and Surgery. Two years later, in 1986, he returned to the same university to pursue a thoracic surgery specialty.In addition to becoming the Head of the Department of Endoscopic Surgery of the Chest in 2001 and the Director of the Center for Thoracic Surgery in 2013, Professor Torre started his professional career in 1982 as a surgical assistant in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Ospedale Niguarda in Milan. Apart from his consulting work at Casa di Cura La Madonnina, he was also appointed Director of the Cardiovascular Department, a role he continues to hold in 2019. Professor Massimo Torre undertook internships in Tokyo, Toronto, Hanover, and Vienna during his professional career, where he gained experience in the techniques related to treatments such as thoracic endoscopic surgery, lung transplantation, and mediastinal resection. minimally invasive surgery for thoracic abnormalities. In addition to performing multiple single and bilateral lung transplants in his capacity as Director of Thoracic Surgery, Professor Torre has long supported resection techniques for the treatment of lung and mediastinal cancer (both in open and minimally invasive surgery).