Dr. Mauro Rinaldi is a Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino. He has been the Chief of the Cardiac Surgery Division at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Turin, Italy. He is currently the Head of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino. According to current statistics, he has published 577 papers in various journals and has 8233 citations. Furthermore, his skills and expertise relate to cardiac surgery, cardiology, the heart, pacemakers, echocardiography, heart failure, heart valve diseases, surgery, transplantation, and infection.