Dr. Massimo Caputo is a Professor of Congenital Cardiac
Surgery at the University of Bristol, UK, and a Visiting Professor of
Congenital Cardiac Surgery at the RUSH University Medical Center, Chicago,
USA. He received his PhD at the University of Naples in 1992. His clinical
interests include neonatal surgery, complex aortic surgery in young adults,
minimally invasive pulmonary valve surgery, and mitral and tricuspid valve
repair. He performs over 200 complex major cardiac procedures per year. His
research interests include developing innovative surgical strategies for
congenital heart surgery through randomised trials, in particular, improving
myocardial protection and CPB strategies, adult congenital heart surgery,
complex valve repairs, regenerative medicine in congenital heart disease and
ischaemia reperfusion injury.
