Alain Cribier, Pioneering Interventional Cardiologist

Prof. Alain Cribier, MD, MD, FACC, FESC has been Chief of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle of Rouen, France for 20 years. He became widely recognised for having developed new interventional technologies for the treatment of valvular heart diseases: balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1985, mitral commissurotomy in 1994, and, after 15 years of research, transcatheter implantation of aortic valves (TAVI), performing the first world case in Rouen in 2002. This last breakthrough technology, which is now widely used in the world with more than 300,000 patients treated and an explosive growth will have a durable impact on the pattern of medical practice.

Prof. Cribier has received a number of prestigious scientific distinctions and awards for his pioneering work, most recently the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology. He has published more than 600 indexed articles in the fields of interventional cardiology, valve disease and innovative technologies. He is now Emeritus Professor and Medical Director of the Rouen Normandy Medical Training Centre.

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