Gino Gerosa is a Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Padua Medical School. He is currently a Chief of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Padua University Hospital. He has been a Director of the Residency School in Cardiac Surgery at the University of Padua Medical School. His fields of interest are tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, ventricular assist devices, robotic surgery, surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, beating heart surgery, homograft and autograft, and follow-up of patients with heart valve prostheses. He performed the first Italian robot-enhanced coronary bypass on a beating heart in 2001 and one of the first worldwide stem cell transplantation for post-ischemic cardiomyopathy in 2002. He also performed the first Italian implantation of the CardioWest TAH in 2007. He is a Past President of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery and a member of EACTS and AATS. He is a co-author of more than 450 publications in International Journals with an H Index of 47 and several chapters of books. For his renowned experimental and clinical research and activity, he received several international prizes, such as the Alexis Carrel Award and the Lifetime Achievement of the Heart Valve Society of America.