Antonio Colombo, MD, FACC, MSCAI
EMO GVM Centro Cuore Columbus - Humanitas Research Hospital
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Antonio Colombo is Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in Columbus Hospital in Milan, professor of Cardiology at Humanitas University and Senior Consultant in Cardiology at Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano/Milan, Italy. Prof. Antonio Colombo has been Director of Invasive Cardiology at San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Professor of Cardiology at University Vita e Salute in Milan for the past 20 years. Prof. Colombo performed landmark work in the field of coronary stenting, intravascular ultrasound, and stent thrombosis. He has been one of the early initiators of TAVI procedures in Italy refining some aspect of this procedure. Antonio Colombo is on the Editorial Board of all major Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology Journals. He received several recognitions including the TCT Career Achievement Award and the PCR Ethica Award. He published over 1000 papers in peer review journals, several books in the field of coronary interventions and contributed with chapters in the most important Interventional Cardiology books.
