
BOLOGNA HEART SURGERY SYMPOSIUM 2025
SYMPOSIUM CHAIRMAN
Davide Pacini
Chief, Cardiac Surgery Unit – IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna – Italy
Full Professor of the Department of Medical and Surgical Science – Università di Bologna – Italy
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
Giorgio Arpesella
Università di Bologna – Italy
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Giuseppe Barberio
Cardiac Surgery Unit
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna – Italy
Luca Botta
Cardiac Surgery Unit
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna – Italy
Sofia Martin-Suarez
Cardiac Surgery Unit
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna – Italy
FACULTY
Marco Adversi – Bologna, Italy
Cristiano Amarelli – Napoli, Italy
Marta Velia Antonini – Cesena, Italy
Massimo Baiocchi – Bologna, Italy
Giuseppe Barberio – Bologna, Italy
Maria Benedetto – Bologna, Italy
Mauro Biffi – Bologna, Italy
Massimo Boffini – Torino, Italy
Maurizio Bonesi – Bologna, Italy
Luca Botta – Bologna, Italy
Tomaso Bottio – Bari, Italy
Giovanni Bracchetti – Bologna, Italy
Gianni Casella – Bologna, Italy
Elisa Cerchierini – Bologna, Italy
Francesca Cionini – Bologna, Italy
Paolo C. Colombo – New York, USA
Carlo Coniglio – Bologna, Italy
Erika Cordella – Bologna, Italy
Federica D’Anna – Bologna, Italy
Alexey Dashkevich – Leipzig, Germany
Benedetta De Chiara – Milano, Italy
Marisa De Feo – Napoli, Italy
Luca Di Marco – Bologna, Italy
Frank D’Ovidio – New York, USA
Mariano Feccia – Roma, Italy
Giovanni Ferrari – New York, USA
Gino Gerosa – Padova, Italy
Francesco Grigioni – Roma, Italy
Attilio Iacovoni – Bergamo, Italy
Massimo Imazio – Udine, Italy
Umit Kervan – Ankara, Türkiye
Feras Khaliel – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Alessandro Leone – Bologna, Italy
Pascal Leprince – Paris, France
Antonio Loforte – Torino, Italy
Giovanni Battista Luciani – Verona, Italy
Giampaolo Luzi – Roma, Italy
Massimo Maccherini – Siena, Italy
Gian Marco Mancuso – Bologna, Italy
Marco Marini – Ancona, Italy
Sofia Martìn Suarez – Bologna, Italy
Andrea Marudi – Baggiovara, Italy
Marco Masetti – Bologna, Italy
Fabrizio Monaco – Milano, Italy
Alessandro Nanni Costa – Bologna, Italy
Alessandro Navazio – Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ivan Netuka – Praga, Czech Republic
Mehmet Oezkur – Mainz, Germany
Fabrizio Oliva – Milano, Italy
Francesco Onorati – Trento, Italy
Oscar Otero Garcia – Santiago, Spain
Davide Pacini – Bologna, Italy
Renato Pascale – Bologna, Italy
Manish K. Patel – Houston, USA
Stefano Pelenghi – Pavia, Italy
Emanuele Pilato – Napoli, Italy
Michele Pilato – Palermo, Italy
Luciano Potena – Bologna, Italy
Paola Prestinenzi – Bologna, Italy
Marco Ranucci – Milano, Italy
Mauro Rinaldi – Torino, Italy
Valentina Roncarati – Bologna, Italy
Igor Rudez – Zagreb, Croatia
Antonio Russo – Bologna, Italy
Claudio Francesco Russo – Milano, Italy
Mario Sabatino – Bologna, Italy
Francesco Saia – Bologna, Italy
Francesco Santini – Genova, Italy
Murat Sargin – Istanbul, Türkiye
Biagio Sassone – Ferrara, Italy
Carlo Savini – Cotignola, Italy
Mara Scandroglio – Milano, Italy
Antonio Siniscalchi – Bologna, Italy
Sandro Sponga – Udine, Italy
Bradley Taylor – Baltimore, USA
Hiroo Takayama – New York, USA
Koji Takeda – New York, USA
Amedeo Terzi – Bergamo, Italy
Gianfranco Tortorici – Bentivoglio, Italy
Stefano Urbinati – Bologna, Italy
Serafina Valente – Siena, Italy
Igor Vendramin – Udine, Italy
Andrè Vincentelli – Lille, France
Daniel Zimpfer – Vienna, Austria
Andreas Zuckermann – Vienna, Austri
REGISTRATION FEES
Physician € 150.00 + 22% VAT
Physician SICCH/TSCVS/IACTS Members* € 100.00 + 22% VAT
Trainee € 100.00 + 22% VAT
Perfusionist € 100.00 + 22% VAT
Nurse € 100.00 + 22% VAT
*Reduced fee for individual registrations only
HOW TO REGISTER
On-line registration HERE
Registration fee includes:
• Access to the Scientific sessions of the Symposium
• Conference kit
• Certificate of attendance
VENUE
Royal Hotel Carlton
Via Montebello, 8 – 40121 Bologna (Italy)
The Hotel is in the centre of Bologna, close to the railway station and just a short
walk from Piazza Maggiore and the Two Towers.
LUNCHES
During the Lunch Simposia on 11 and 12 september, lunch boxes will be delivered to all attendees directly in the Plenary Hall
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the Symposium is English.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
The certificate of attendance will be sent by e-mail at the end of the Symposium.
EXHIBITION AREA
A technical exhibiton will take place throughout the Symposium.
SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Thursday, 11 september 2025 at 20.30
CONFERENCE DINNER
PALAZZO PEPOLI
Via Castiglione, 10
40125 Bologna (BO)

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