Mauro Cassese
Specialist in General
Surgery and Cardiac Surgery, Mauro Cassese boasts of a more than thirty
years’ experience acquired all over the world, mainly in Europe and the
United States. He attended Medical school at Sapienza
University in Rome, and a Clinical fellowship in General Medicine at
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, before specializing in
Cardiac Surgery. Mauro Cassese obtained the license to operate both in
Italy and the United States. Currently, he is Head of the
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Casa sollievo della sofferenza
Hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo (FG). He also directed the Cardiovascular Surgical Department at Santa Maria Hospital in Bari,
the Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Interventional Cardiology
for Structural Heart Diseases and Cardiology at S. Anna Hospital in Catanzaro, and the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology at Villa Maria Pia Hospital in Turin. His main areas of interest are CABG,
arterial CABG and total arterial revascularization, off-pump CABG,
hybrid revascularization, heart valve replacement and repair,
mini-invasive mitral and aortic valve replacement and repair, aortic
surgery, transcatheter aortic valve implantation, heart failure surgery
and surgery for atrial fibrillation. As a surgeon, he performed more than 800
general surgery operations and more than 11,000 heart surgeries. Over
the course of his career Dr. Cassese supervised and directed more than
18,000 heart surgery operations. He gathered a long lasting experience as
proctor (mainly in Europe, USA and Middle East) for several biomedical
technologies companies (Symetis/Boston Scientific, Medtronic and HVT –
Edwards Lifesciences). For HVT – Edwards Lifesciences he has become one
of the very few proctors all over the world certified for TF, TA and TAO
approaches with Sapien XT and Sapien-3 transcatheteral valves.


Already a member of the most prestigious professional heart surgery associations in Italy and abroad (ANMCO, SICOA, SICCH), Dr. Mauro Cassese is currently an active member of EACTS (The European Association for CardioThoracic Surgery), STS (The Society of Thoracic Surgeons), CTS-org (Cardiothoracic Surgery Organization).

Dr. Mauro Cassese is actively engaged in scientific research and training worldwide, through proctoring sessions regarding percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
