Dr. Fernando Platania holds a Doctorate in Medicine focusing in Cardiac Surgery from the University of São Paulo - Brazil. He is Advisor, Editorial Board revisor of Brazilian Journal of Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. He is co-author of several Textbooks chapters, Clinical Trials and Clinical works on his research field, Coronary and Valve Cardiac Surgery. Currently, he is Surgeon of Emergency Cardiac Surgery Department of the two main Hospitals in Brazil, Albert Einstein Hospital and Sírio-libanês Hospital.

Clinical cardiology; Corornary Surgery, Valvular Surgery, Clinical research; Heart failure; Internal medicine; Aorta Surgery; Emergency medicine; Medical education; Clinical trials; Bioethics in Medicine.