Bernardo Cortese

Bernardo Cortese is an interventional cardiologist, and Director of Cardiology at San Carlo Clinic in Milano. He is an expert in the areas of drug-coated balloons, bioresorbable scaffolds, antithrombotics, optical coherence tomography, and left main coronary revascularization. Dr Cortese has performed more than 3000 coronary and peripheral percutaneous interventions as first operator. He is also consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Gruppo San Donato for peripheral and structural heart...See more

Bernardo Cortese is an interventional cardiologist, and Director of Cardiology at San Carlo Clinic in Milano. He is an expert in the areas of drug-coated balloons, bioresorbable scaffolds, antithrombotics, optical coherence tomography, and left main coronary revascularization. Dr Cortese has performed more than 3000 coronary and peripheral percutaneous interventions as first operator. He is also consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Gruppo San Donato for peripheral and structural heart interventions. He is President of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Ricerca e Innovazione Cardiovascolare, a research institution based in Milano. He is Coordinator of the International Fellowship Program-European Society of Cardiology (ESC), since 2013, and is Coordinator of Clinical & Scientific Research at San Carlo Clinic. He is involved in several educational programs, including the "DEB School", and he is author of more than 300 publications indexed in Pubmed. See less