Antonio Miceli

Dr. Antonio Miceli is a cardiac surgeon at the Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Department of IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio. He also collaborates with Palazzo della Salute-Wellness Clinic.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2003 from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, and in 2008 he specialized in Cardiac Surgery from the Sapienza University of Rome.

In 2007-2008, he attended Yale University as a visiting physician at Yale New Haven Health Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut (USA), where he delved into the pathophysiology and surgical treatment of aortic aneurysms. 

Subsequently, he was hired as a cardiac surgeon at the Bristol Heart Institute to study surgical methods of myocardial revascularization on a working heart. From 2008 to 2018 he was Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK, and in 2012 he received his PhD in Europe in Experimental Pathophysiology from Tor Vergata University in Rome. 

From 2010 to 2014 he was the first level supervisor at the Fondazione G. Monasterio, Ospedale del Cuore, where he learned the techniques of minimally invasive heart surgery. 

Since November 2014, he has been working as a cardiac surgeon at the IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio in the Department of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. 

Areas of interest: minimally invasive cardiac surgery, reconstruction of the aortic and mitral valves using minimally invasive techniques, myocardial revascularization on a working heart, aortic aneurysms using minimally invasive access.
He is currently the principal investigator of a randomized trial evaluating 2 mitral valve rings.

Dr. Micheli is the author of 167 publications, including editorial ones, the author of 7 chapters in books with Hirsch Index 37, which allows him to be included in the Top Italian Scientist (TIS). 

He is an associate editor of Frontier in Cardiovascular Medicine, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (American Association of Thoracic Surgeons) and the Journal of Thoracic Disease. He is also a columnist for the most famous cardiac surgery and cardiology journals.