Professor Gianni Angelini FMedSci

Gianni Angelini is the British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiac Surgery at both the University of Bristol and Imperial College London. His international reputation has been gained through scientific evaluation of innovations in surgical techniques. He has developed animal models applicable to surgery, collaborated with basic scientists to elaborate mechanisms, and conducted randomised controlled trials investigating both biomarkers and clinical outcomes. He is best known for his research on off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. He researched alternative strategies to minimise the myocardial and systemic inflammatory response to injury when using the heart lung machine which transformed adult cardiac surgery