Curriculum vitae di davide ricci

CURRICULUM VITAE

DAVIDE RICCI, MD

- Born in Alessandria, Italy, 05/19/1978.

- High School graduation in 1997 (voting: 60/60).

- Member of the Italian Red Cross since 1998 as first aid volunteer qualified in emergency medical services and basic life support; from 2003 involved as Medical Doctor in first aid courses and exams.

- Attendance of Medical School, at University of Milan, Italy, from 1997 to 2000; and at University of Pavia, Italy, from 2001 to 2003.
- Internship

From 1998 to 1999:

Division of Geriatric and Gerontology Medicine of Alessandria National Hospital (six months).

Division of Haepatology of the University Hospital of Milan (six months).

From 1999 to 2000:

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Alessandria National Hospital (six months).

Division of Cardiology of the University Hospital of Milan (six months).

From 2000 to now:

Division of Cardiac Surgery University Hospital of Pavia.

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  Graduated in Medicine at University of Pavia in October 2003 (voting 108/110).
  
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  Cardiac Surgery Residency from 2003 to 2008.
  

- Research Fellow in Cardiovascular and Transplant Surgery at Mayo Clinic and Foundation,

Rochester, Minnesota, USA, from 09/01/2005 to 08/31/2007.

- Cardiac Surgery Board Certified 10/24/2008 (voting 50/50 magna cum laude)

- Actively involved in minimally invasive cardiac surgery with Port-access technique, in the heart and lung transplantation program and mechanical circulatory support program of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at San Giovanni Battista University Hospital of Torino.

- Staff member in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at San Giovanni Battista University Hospital of Torino since 03/2009

- Assistant professor in Cardiac Surgery at the University of Torino since 10/2012.

- Affiliations:
- Member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery from 2007.

- Member of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association from 2005.

- Partecipation in clinical trials
1. Post-operative use of Tacrolimus (FK 506) i.v. in Heart Transplatantion: Fujisawa GmbH FG-506-05-01 «An open, multicentre, prospectively-randomised, parallel group study with oral tacrolimus (FK506)- or cyclosporin A-based immunosoppressive therapy in primary orthotopic heart transplantation».

2. Lion Heart and CorAide LVAS clinical trial as Study Coordinator.

- Recommendations:
- Prof. Mario Viganò, Director Division of Cardiac Surgery University of Pavia.

- Prof. Mauro Rinaldi, Director Division of Cardiac Surgery University of Torino.

- Prof. Christopher McGregor, Director J von Liebig Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

- Prof. Gunter Blobel, Nobel Price for Medicine year 1999, Director of the Howard Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, NY, USA.

- Prof. Richard Daly, Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

- Prof. Stephen Russell, Director Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

- Prof. Henry Tazelaar, Director Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Arizona, USA.

- Dott. Giovanni Speziali, Consultant and Professor of Surgery Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

- Prof. Virginia Miller, Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

- Dott. Daniel Foley, Vice-President, United Hospital, St. Paul, USA.

- Dott. Dante Medici, Director Division of Cardiac Surgery SS Antonio e Biagio Hospital, Alessandria, Italy.

- Abstracts and publications:

Abstracts
-Miyagi N, Rao VP, Ricci D, Byrne GW, Nakai H, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:

Efficient and long-term gene transfer to the transplanted rat heart by adeno-associated virus 9 vectors.

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 55(Suppl):223, 2007.
- Ricci D, Mennander AA, Rao VP, Miyagi N, Pham LD, Russell SJ, Byrne GW, McGregor CGA:

Non-invasive radioiodine imaging for accurate quantitation of NIS reporter gene expression in transplanted hearts.

Interact Cardiovasc Thoracic Surg, 6, suppl 3:S280, 2007.
- Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Miyagi N, Rao VP, Pedersen RA, Kremers WK, Byrne GW, McGregor CGA:

Comparison between endomyocardial biopsy and cross section histology for the diagnosis of cardiac rejection in heterotopic cardiac xenotransplantation.

Xenotransplantation, 14(5): 434, 2007.
- McGregor CGA, Miyagi N, Ricci D, Gazi MH, Tazelaar HD, Byrne GW:

Pig to primate cardiac xenotransplantation using Gal KO porcine donors.

Xenotransplantation, 14(5):384, 2007.
- McGregor CGA, Tazelaar HD, Rao VP, Ricci D, Miyagi N, Gazi M, Whelan S, Edgerton S, Byrne GW:

Gene-knockout (GT-KO) heterotopic cardiac xenotransplantation: are GT-KO pigs essential for successful clinical xenotransplantation?

Xenotransplantation 14(2):181-2, 2007.
- McGregor CGA, Tazelaar HD, Rao VP, Ricci D, Miyagi N, Gazi MH, Edgerton SL, Byrne GW:

Are GT-KO pigs essential for successful cardiac xenotransplantation?

J Heart Lung Transplant 26(2S):S263, 2007.
- Rao VP, Branzoli SE, Ricci D, Miyagi N, Tazelaar HD, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:
Recombinant adenoviral gene transfer by ex vivo perfusion does not affect cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
J Heart Lung Transplant 26(2S):S82, 2007.
- Rao VP, Miyagi N, Ricci D, Carlson SK, Federspiel M, Bailey KR, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:
Sodium iodide symporter (hNIS) gene transfer permits non invasive reporter gene imaging in cardiac transplantation.
Balfour Surgical Research Symposium, Mayo Clinic, 2006.
- Miyagi N, Schirmer JM, Rao VP, Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Bailey KR, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:
Recombinant adeno-associated virus vector for gene transfer to the transplanted rat heart. Balfour Surgical Research Symposium, Mayo Clinic, 2006.
- Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Rao VP, Miyagi N, Mennander AA, Byrne GW, McGregor CGA:
Comparison between endomyocardial biopsy and cross section histology for the diagnosis of cardiac rejection in heterotopic cardiac xenotransplantation.
Balfour Surgical Research Symposium, Mayo Clinic, 2006.
- Rao VP, Miyagi N, Ricci D, Carlson SK, Federspiel M, Bailey KR, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:
Sodium iodide symporter (hNIS) gene transfer permits non-invasive reporter gene imaging in cardiac transplantation.
Am J Transplant 6(s2):1031, 2006.
- Miyagi N, Schirmer JM, Rao VP, Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Bailey KR, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:

Recombinant adeno-associated virus vector for gene transfer to the transplanted rat heart.

Am J Transplant 6(s2):1032, 2006.
- Miyagi N, Byrne GW, Davila E, Davies WR, Oi K, Rao VP, Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Walker RC, Gostout CJ, Logan JS, McGregor CGA:
Immunological analysis of orthotopic cardiac xenotransplantation.
Proceedings of the 14^th Annual Meeting of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, (Abstract FO10-5) Page 126, 2006.
- M. Viganò, M. Rinaldi, P. Spreafico, T. Ragni, C. Pellegrini, D. Ricci, A. Alloni, B. Cattadori. Chirurgie mini-invasive assistée par video de la valve mitrale selon la technique port-access: une nouvelle voie? L’experience d’un centre.

Abstract book of the 57^th Congress of the French Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery (2004).
- C. Pellegrini, M. Rinaldi, A.M. D’Armini, F. Tancredi, D. Ricci, S. Perrotta, A.M. Grande, M. Viganò.

Heart transplantation in donors over 60 years old. Experience of a single center.

Abstract book of the North Italian Transplant meeting (2003) p. 78.

Manuscripts
- Miyagi N, Rao VP, Ricci D, Du Z, Byrne GW, Bailey KR, Nakai H, Russell SJ, McGregor CG.

Efficient and durable gene transfer to transplanted heart using adeno-associated virus 9 vector.

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2008 May;27(5):554-60.
- Ricci D, Mennander AA, Pham LD, Rao VP, Miyagi N, Byrne GW, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:

Non-invasive radioiodine imaging for accurate quantitation of NIS reporter gene expression in transplanted hearts.

Eur J Cardio-thorac Surg, 33(1):32-9, 2008.
- Rao VP, Miyagi N, Ricci D, Carlson SK, Morris JC, Federspiel MJ, Bailey KR, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:

Sodium iodide symporter (hNIS) permits molecular imaging of gene transduction in cardiac transplantation.

Transplantation, 94(12):1662-6, 2007.
- Rao VP, Branzoli SE, Ricci D, Miyagi N, O’Brien T, Tazelaar HD, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:

Recombinant adenoviral gene transfer does not affect cardiac allograft vasculopathy.

J Heart Lung Transplant, 26(12):1281-5, 2007.
- Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Miyagi N, Rao VP, Pedersen RA, Kremers WK, Byrne GW, McGregor CGA:

The utility of right ventricle endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of cardiac xenograft rejection

J Heart Lung Transplant, 26(10): 1025-32, 2007.
- Schirmer JM, Miyagi N, Rao VP, Ricci D, Federspiel MJ, Kotin RM, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA:

Recombinant adeno-associated virus vector for gene transfer to the transplanted rat heart.

Transplant Int, 20(6):550-7, 2007.
- Gazzoli F, Alloni A, Pagani F, Pellegrini C, Longobardi A, Ricci D, Rinaldi M, Viganò M.

Arrow CorAide left ventricular assist system: initial experience of the cardio-thoracic surgery center in Pavia.

Ann Thorac Surg. 2007 Jan;83(1):279-82.
- Byrne GW, Davies WR, Oi K, Rao VP, Teotia SS, Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Walker RC, Logan JS, McGregor CGA:
Increased immunosuppression not anticoagulation extends cardiac xenograft survival.

Transplantation, 82(12):1787-91, 2006 Dec 27.
- M. Rinaldi, F. Pagani, F. Gazzoli, A. Alloni, D. Ricci, M. Viganò.

Left ventricular assistance from bridge to transplantation to destination therapy. The Pavia experience.

Eur Heart J Supplements (2004) 6 (supplement F), F81-86.