Key Opinion leaders, internationally renowned cardiac surgeons, who are supporting the development of the Triflo valve.
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Medical advisors
Didier Lapeyre, M.D.
Dr. Lapeyre has devoted his life to the design, development and validation of innovative medical devices for the primary benefit of patients.
He first worked on the first tri-leaflet heart valve in the 1980s with Dassault Aviation and led pre-clinical animal testing at the Texas Heart Institute.
Previously, Dr. Lapeyre served as designer and director of scientific and medical affairs for the total artificial heart research program initiated by Aerospatiale.
He also worked at the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Dr. Lapeyre was taught by the pioneers of open heart surgery (Prof. Marion, Dr. Lillehei, Dr. Cooley, Dr. Frazier), and by the founders of artificial heart research (Dr. Pierce, Dr. Kolff and Dr. Akutsu).
He is the author of more than 30 scientific publications and is the author of more than 15 patents.
Prof. Bart Meuris, M.D.
Prof. Thierry Carrel, M.D.
Walter Dembitsky, M.D.
Prof. Gilles Dreyfus, M.D.
Prof. Richard W Bianco, M.D.
Prof. Michael Borger, MD PhD
Prof. Joerg Kempfert, MD
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Scientific advisors
Prof. Dominik Obrist, Ph.D
—Head of Cardiovascular Engineering at Artorg University of Bern, Switzerland
—Biofluid mechanics, experimental and computational fluid dynamics
Jean Geringer, Ph.D
—Material Sciences and tribology
—Professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Stefano Mischler, Ph.D, Senior Scientist
—Material Sciences and tribology
—Head of tribology group at EPFL
Pierre Perrier, Ph.D
—Designer of the Rafale aircraft and Head of the Advanced Studies at Dassault-Aviation
—Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Paris, France