Meet the EACTS faculty

Silvia Taralli

Silvia Taralli graduated in 2008 as a medical doctor at the Sapienza University in Rome (Italy) and in 2014 as…

Inga Voges

Dr. Inga Voges is a consultant in paediatric and adult congenital heart disease at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel…

Elizabeth Belcher

Elizabeth Belcher is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She specialises in minimally invasive…

Nimesh Desai

Nimesh Desai is a cardiovascular surgeon who serves as Co-Director of the Penn Thoracic Aortic Surgery Program and an Associate…

Francoise Galateau-Salle

Francoise Galateau-Salle is the Head of MESOPATH in the Department of Biopathology Cancer Center Leon Berard in Lyon, France.  She…

Federico Piccioni

Federico Piccioni received his medical and anesthesiology training at the University of Pavia, Italy.  He worked as staff anesthesiologist at…

Nigel Drury

Nigel Drury graduated with honours from the University of Southampton in 2000 and completed his basic surgical training in Wessex…

David Taggart

David Taggart qualified from Glasgow University in 1981. After clinical training in Glasgow, Paris, Newcastle and London (under Prof Sir…

Marcelo Jimenez

Marcelo Jimenez graduated in 1985 as a medical doctor at the Granada University. He completed his residency in general thoracic…

Pier Luigi Filosso

Pier Luigi Filosso, M.D. is Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Medical Faculty of the University of Torino (Italy).…

Alessandro Brunelli

Dr Alessandro Brunelli is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, St.…

Alan Sihoe

Dr Sihoe received his medical training at the University of Cambridge, and after working in Scotland and England, he returned…

Alberto Albertini

Alberto Albertini is currently chief of the cardiothoracic surgery division at Hesperia Hospital Modena, Italy, and adjunct professor at the…