Saverio La Francesca

Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Bio

Clinical Focus
-Heart Transplantation.
-Lung Transplantation
-Organ Perfusion and Preservation.
-Regenerative Medicine

Academic Appointments
-Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery. Current
-Asst. Professor of Surgery. Ohio State University. Wexner Medical Center. Columbus-Ohio. 2019 – 2020
-Staff - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center. Houston, Texas. 2010-2013
-Attending Surgeon - Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation. Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Houston, Texas. 2018- 2010

Industry Experience
-President and Chief Medical Officer, Mar 2017 to Oct 2017 Biostage, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSTG)
-Executive Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer, Aug 2015 to Mar 2017 Biostage, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSTG)
-Chief Medical Officer, Apr 2014 to Jul 2015 Biostage, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSTG) (formerly Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology,

Academic Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Reviewer, Annals of Thoracic Surgery (2019 - Present)

Professional Education

Certificate, Cornell University, Financial management (2018)
Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine-Methodist Hospital. Houston, Texas, Aortic Surgery (1994)
Fellow, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Houston, Texas, Cardiovascular Surgery (1993)
Fellow, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Houston, Texas, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support (1992)
Fellow, Texas Heart Institute, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support (1991)
Residency, University of Rome "La Sapienza". Rome, Italy, Cardiovascular Surgery (1991)
Certificate, ECFMG (1989)
MD, University of Palermo, Italy, Medicine (1985)

Patents

Saverio La Francesca,Ting A, Deans R. "United States Patent US 9,861,660 B2 Organs for Transplantation", Saverio La Francesca, Houston Methodist Hospital, Athersys, May 9, 2019
Saverio La Francesca, Sherif Soliman, Matthew Marsh. "United States Patent US10265153B2 Systems and methods for producing gastrointestinal tissues", Biostage, May 18, 2017
Saverio La Francesca, Sherif Soliman David C. Rice, Ara A. Vaporciyan. "United States Patent WO2017083864A1 Systems and methods for producing gastrointestinal tissues at an anstomosis or other physiological location", Biostage, May 18, 0207

All Publications

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David M. Axelrod, MD

Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Clinical Focus
Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Virtual Reality
Research Interests
Virtual Reality Congenital Heart Disease experience: The Stanford Virtual Heart. Currently engaged with 19 academic medical centers across the globe using our Stanford Virtual Heart to educate students and trainees, and research our VR experience as a means for training and education. Also developing next generation modeling and image interaction with Stanford engineers and educators, to promote personalized surgical training in VR and advanced educational programs in congenital heart disease.

53 Total Publications
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Daniel Bernstein

Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel G. Salter Endowed Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Focus
Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Heart Transplantation, Pediatric Heart Failure
Research Interests
1. Using iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes to understand hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and heart failure associated with congenital heart disease.
2. Role of alterations in mitochondrial dycamics and function in normal physiology and disease.
3. Differences between R and L ventricular responses to stress,
4. Immune biomarkers of risk after pediatric VAD implantation.
5. Biomarkers for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder.

335 Total Publications
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Mark Francis Berry, MD

Mylavarapu Rogers Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clinical Focus
Cancer > Thoracic Oncology, Thoracic Surgery

253 Total Publications
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(Robert) Jeenchen Chen

Clinical Instructor, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests
My expertise is to interpret clinical data by biostatistics. My pending research are below:
AI Prediction Model of Profound Cardiogenic Shock status post VA-ECMO
Surgical outcomes of pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis by national and hospital databases
The effect of hybrid operation on the outcomes of acute type-A aortic dissection by hospital data
Calcium Physiology of Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle — the First Evidence from Human Transplant Cardiectomy (Presented at ISHLT 2017)

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Albert Cheung

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Clinical Focus
Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cardiovascular Surgical Critical Care Medicine

92 Total Publications
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Ana Maria Crawford

Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Clinical Focus
Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine

5 Total Publications
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Rabin Gerrah

Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

31 Total Publications
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Sai Gourisankar

Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017 Masters Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Winter 2021

6 Total Publications
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Francois Haddad

Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Focus
Cardiology, RIght Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, Hypertensive Heart Disease, Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction, Advanced heart failure, Heart Transplantation, Unexplained Dyspnea, Mechanical Cardiac Support

290 Total Publications
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William Hiesinger, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)
Clinical Focus
Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Mitral Valve Repair, Aortic Aneurysm, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Complex Valve Repair Surgery, Aortic Valve Repair, Valve Replacement Surgery, Surgical Treatments of Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, Ventricular Assist Device, Heart-Lung Transplantation, Coronary Artery Bypass, Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-pump, Reoperative Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Device Trials, Lung Transplantation, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery

96 Total Publications
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Seth Hollander, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Clinical Focus
Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation

98 Total Publications
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Komal Kamra

Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Clinical Focus
Anesthesia, Pediatric anesthesia, Pediatric cardiac anesthesia, Clinical Informatics
Research Interests
Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Transesophageal Echocardiography
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Clinical Informatics

21 Total Publications