Francesco Onorati is a cardiac surgeon working at Verona University Hospital, Italy. He was trained at the Second University of Naples, Italy, were he focused his researches on myocardial protection strategies, cardiopulmonary bypass, and heart transplantation. Afterwards, he moved to University Magna Graecia, Italy, as a staff surgeon, where he specialized in heart failure surgery, left ventricular assisting devices, arterial grafting, pulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass, heart failure surgery and atrial fibrillation surgery. During the last 10 years he specialized in aortic surgery, endocarditis, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, transcatheter procedures, mechanical assisting devices and transplantation. He gained his PhD at the Second University of Naples, Italy, working on cardiopulmonary bypass biocompatibility. He served as a lecturer in both Medical School and Cardiovascular Perfusion School of Medicine at Magna Graecia University and at University of Verona. He currently serves as President of the Cardiovascular Perfusion School of Medicine at the University of Verona Medical School. He is also Responsible for the Heart Transplant program, the Minimally Invasive Valve program and the Arrhythmia Surgery program at the Division of Cardiac Surgery of Verona University Hospital. He is involved in all areas of adult cardiac surgery, but his principal areas of interest are cardiopulmonary bypass biocompatibility, aortic surgery, endocarditis, minimally invasive valve therapy, heart transplant and mechanical assisting devices.
