Jean-francois Obadia
MD, PhD
Medicine
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Surgery
Lyon, France
Professor Jean-Francois Obadia is actually the chief of the Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery in Lyon – France. As a member of EACTS, ISHLT, and AATS, he is mainly involved in valvular Surgery and Cardiac assistance and transplantation. The valvular program includes all aspects of valvular surgery from the most complex repairs for endocarditis (Homograft of monobloc aorto-mitral) to the minimally invasive approaches for mitral. He is also very active in the development of the percutaneous approaches for the aortic valves (TAVI) and Mitral vales (Mitraclip, Valve in Valve, Valve in MAC, Neochord, Tendyne…). The transplantation program includes 45 heart transplantations, 20 Mono Left assistance and bi-VAD, and around 100 ECMO per year.