Antonio Colombo MD, FACC, FESC, FSCAI

Antonio Colombo is a senior consultant at Humanitas Clinical Research Hospital in Milan, Italy, and the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Columbus Hospital in Milan, Italy. Prof. Antonio Colombo has been the general coordinator of GVM-Care and Research Group, Cardiac Laboratories in Italy for the past two years, director of invasive cardiology at San Raffaele Scientific Institute, and professor of cardiology at the University Vita e Salute in Milan for the past 20 years.

Prof. Colombo performed landmark work in the field of coronary stenting, intravascular ultrasound, and stent thrombosis. He has been one of the early initiators of TAVI procedures in Italy, refining some aspects of this procedure. He has received recognition, including the TCT Career Achievement Award and the PCR Ethica Award. He published over 1,000 papers in peer-reviewed journals, several books in the field of coronary interventions, and contributed chapters to the most important interventional cardiology books.