A Multidisciplinary Core Team

The three Directors have different specialties: Robert Lorusso is a cardiac surgeon, Sascha Ott a cardiac intensivist and Flavio Ribichini a interventional cardiologist. 40 other healthcare practitioners will be assigned to one of 5 working groups:

  • Patient and MCS device phenotyping
  • Implantation and complication management
  • Shock network and patient care
  • MCS evidence and outcomes
  • Innovation

Directors

Roberto Lorusso

Cardiac surgeon

Academic Hospital Maastricht - Maastricht, Netherlands

Sascha Ott

Anaesthesiologist, cardiac intensivist

Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité - Berlin, Germany

Flavio Luciano Ribichini

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

University of Verona - Verona, Italy

The working group leaders and members

Patient & MCS device phenotypingImplantation and complication managementShock network / Patient careMCS evidence & outcomesInnovation

Federico Pappalardo

Jan Belohlavek

Hatem Soliman

Christophe Vandenbriele

Daniel Zimpfer

Anna Mara Scandroglio

Albert Ariza-Sole

Tim Balthazar

Christiaan Meuwese

Gabor G. Toth

Alexandre Mebazaa

Claudio Russo

Thijs Delnoij

Paolo Meani

Benedikt Schrage

Monica Fürholz

Lukas Geiger

Gianluca Paternoster

Pia Lanmuller

Ivan Netuka

Sern Lim

Gabriele Pesarini

Miguel Pinon

Bastian Schmack

Filip De Somer

Evgenij Potapov

Divaka Perera

Marina Pieri

Albana Frroku

Bernd Panholzer

Pascal Vranckx

Bartus Stanislaw

Marko Noc

Holger Thiele

Lukas Hunziker Munsch

Jose Henriques

Javier Escaned


Sincere thanks and recognition to Abiomed, founding partner of the PCR MCS Focus Group.