Professor Carlo Di Mario was born in Modena, Italy. He is an internationally recognised interventional cardiologist with a career spanning Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. His clinical and academic work has focused on complex coronary and structural heart interventions, and he is widely regarded as a leading authority in transcatheter valve therapies and advanced interventional techniques.
Academic History
Professor Di Mario graduated in medicine from the University of Padua, where he also specialised in cardiology. He pursued advanced training in interventional cardiology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he completed his PhD. His academic development combined clinical cardiology with imaging-guided interventions and translational research, laying the foundation for his later leadership roles in structural and coronary intervention.
Career Overview
Professor Di Mario became Professor of Cardiology at the University of Florence and Director of Structural Interventional Cardiology at Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy. Prior to this, he served as Research and Clinical Director for Interventional Cardiology at the University Vita-Salute of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.
From January 2003 to November 2016, Professor Di Mario was Professor of Clinical Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. In 2010, he was appointed Senior Investigator of the UK National Institute for Health Research.
Professor Di Mario is a certified implanter of the Medtronic Evolut R and Edwards Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valves. He has more than eight years of experience with MitraClip procedures and began implanting the CardioBand system in 2017. His work has contributed significantly to the evolution of structural heart interventions and minimally invasive valve therapies.
Career Timeline
- University of Padua – Medical degree and cardiology specialisation
- Erasmus University, Rotterdam – Interventional cardiology training and PhD
- University of Florence – Professor of Cardiology
- Careggi University Hospital, Florence – Director of Structural Interventional Cardiology
- University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan – Research and Clinical Director, Interventional Cardiology
- 2003–2016 – Professor of Clinical Cardiology, NHLI, Imperial College London
- 2003–2016 – Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
- 2010 – Appointed Senior Investigator, National Institute for Health Research
Recognition
Professor Di Mario has held numerous leadership positions within the European Society of Cardiology. He served as Secretary of the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology and was President of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions from 2009 to 2011. Between 2012 and 2014, he served as Councillor of the ESC.
He has been a member of multiple ESC guideline and consensus document writing committees and is a first, last, or co-author of numerous expert consensus papers and peer-reviewed publications. Professor Di Mario is also an Editorial Board member of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3) and European Cardiology Review.
Areas of Speciality
- Interventional Cardiology
- Structural Heart Disease
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Mitral Valve Repair Technologies
- Coronary Interventions
- Imaging-Guided Cardiac Intervention
- Clinical Research and Guideline Development
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