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Gianluigi Bisleri, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto
University of Toronto

Dr. Gian Bisleri is a Staff Cardiac Surgeon – Entrepreneur at St. Michael’s Hospital, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and Investigator at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
Dr. Bisleri has extensive expertise in the full spectrum of adult cardiac surgery with a special expertise in the full spectrum of minimally invasive cardiac surgery: in particular, he has been focusing on developing less invasive approaches for cardiac valve repair and replacement as well as novel and advanced reconstruction techniques.. Dr. Bisleri is also an integral member of the Structural Heart Program at St. Michael’s Hospital with direct involvement in percutaneous treatment of valve disease (mitral, aortic, tricuspid), either for transcatheter valve repair or replacement . 
Dr. Bisleri has pioneered the totally endoscopic treatment of atrial fibrillation in 2005 and contributed to the introduction of the hybrid approach and combined epicardial/endocardial advanced mapping in combination with the Arrhythmia team .
Dr. Bisleri completed his medical education as well as cardiac surgical training in Italy (respectively at the University of Brescia and University of Padova): during his residency, he also further expanded his clinical and research interests in minimally invasive/robotic/arrhythmia surgery thanks to a research fellowship at Columbia University in New York. He received additional surgical training as Senior Fellow at the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (UK) before returning to Italy as Attending Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Brescia in 2009 where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014.
Dr. Bisleri has contributed to the co-development of a novel platform for advanced simulation of cardiac surgical training (CarMoSim).

Disclosure(s): Archetype Biomedical: Ownership Interest (stocks, stock options, patent or other intellectual property or other ownership interest excluding diversified mutual funds) (Ongoing); Atricure: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Honoraria (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciencies: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker's Honoraria (Ongoing); Medtronic: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Honoraria (Ongoing)

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