Gianluca "Jacky" Rigatelli

Activity

Dr Rigatelli works as Director of Interventional cardiology of the Division of Cardiology of AUSSL6 Ospedali Riuniti Padova Sud, Monselice, and serves as interventional cardiologist by 25 years performing left main interventions, congenital heart disease and peripheral intervention pioneering a number of new percutaneous interventions including: new application of intracardiac echo to interatrial shunt closure, a new technique for subclavian artery and iliac artery interventions, and a new technique for left main dual stenting. He serve sas Visiting Professor of Cardiology in a number of International Institutions teaching and proctoring complex coronary and cardiovascular procedures. He works also as Professor on contract teaching Human Physiology and serve as reviewer in the major cardiovascular journals. He is member of the editorial board of a number of international journals and guest editor of Journal Clinical medicine, Frontiers in Cardiovascular medicine, and Viruses. He wrote 33 book chapter and was author of 468 papers indexed in PubMed. He travels frequently around the world as faculty of cardiovascular international meetings.

Gianluca "Jacky" Rigatelli

Born	12 October 1971 Embu Kieny, Kenya
Nationality	Italian
Education	1996 MD University of Padua School of Medicine and Surgery Padua, Italy
	2000 Cardiology Diploma University of Padua School of Medicine and Surgery Padua, Italy
	2010 PhD cardiovascular Sciences University of Verona School of Medicine, Verona, Italy
Academics	2012-present Professor on contract Human Physiology Course of Techniques in Radiology and Radiotherapy University of Padua School of Medicine and Surgery Padua, Italy
	2019 ASN Italy Cardiovascular Disease Professorship
	2013-present Honorary Professor of Medicine Tonji University School of Medicine Tenth’s people Hospital Shangai, China
	2006-present Visiting Professor in cardiology Thong Nhat Hospital Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
	2001-present Visiting Professor in Cardiology Tant Tao University School of Medicine Lon An, Vietnam
Fields	Interventional cardiology: Left main disease interventions, congenital heart disease interventions, peripheral artery disease interventions, computational fluid dynamic simulation of cardiovascular disease
Institutions	Present- Director Interventional cardiology Division of Cardiology AULSS6 Ospedali Riuniti Padova Sud Padova, Italy
	2003-2022: Vice-Director Cardiovascularand Endoluminal Interventions Unit Rovigo General Hospital Rovigo , Italy
	2000-2003 Staff physician Cardiovascular Disease Department Cittadella General Hospital Cittadella, Italy
Notes
Top Italian Scientist in Clinical Sciences

Research

Research focus of dr Rigatelli included percutaneous interventions in Left main coronary artery, filed in which he proposed a new technique, the Nano-Inverted T and contributed to define the results of dual stenting in bifurcation Left Main disease being named among national experts in the filed. He is ranked among the first 15 world specialists in the field of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale, for his contribution to pathophysiology of patent foramen oval and the application of intracardiac echocardiography to atrial septal defect transcatheter closure and among national expert of computer simulation applied to cardiovascular disease. He conceived a clinical and functional classification of coronary artery anomalies and in the last 3 years contributed to the definition of cardiovascular risk in Covid-19 patients.