Prof. Leonardo Patanè

 Professional experience

• More than 40 years of experience
• Senior Consultant Department of Cardiac Surgery Center Heart Morgagni di Pedara (CT) (2015-present)
• Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and High Specialty at the Heart Center Morgagni di Pedara (CT) (2009-2015)
• Head of Cardiac Surgery at the Heart Center Morgagni di Pedara (CT) (1995-2015)
• Head of the Pediatric and Neonatal Cardiac Surgery Service of the Heart Center Morgagni di Pedara (CT) (1987-2002)
• Assistant role at the Division of Cardiac Surgery of the Vittorio Emanuele II Hospital in Catania (1982-1995)
• Resident at the Cardiovascular Surgery Service of the "Center Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue" in Paris (1982)
• Resident at the Cardiovascular Surgery Service of the Hospital Broussais in Paris directed by Prof. Ch. Dubost and Prof. A. Carpentier, where he was particularly involved in the divisional (plastic) surgery of the mitral valve and myocardial protection (1981)
• Assistant in the Division of Cardiac Surgery of the Vittorio Emanuele II Hospital in Catania (1978-1982)
• Internal doctor at Cardiosurgery University of Catania (1976-1978)

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 Positions in public associations

• Chairman of the ANMCO National Surgical Area (2017-present)
• Co-Chairman of the National ANMCO Surgical Area (2015-2016)
• Secretary of the Pediatric Section of the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (1996-2000)
• Treasurer of the Mediterranean Association of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (1987-1995)

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 Professional membership

• Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery
• National Association of Hospital Cardiologists
• Society of Pediatric Cardiology
• Italian Society of Cardiology
• Italian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery
• French-speaking Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Society
• European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• Member of the Board of the ANMCO Region of Sicily - National Association of Cardiologists and Hospital Doctors (2002-2014)

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