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UI Heart and Vascular Center

da Vinci Surgical System

Department of Surgery

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Iowa Children's Hospital

Domenico Calcaterra, MD PhD

Assistant Professor,
Division of Adult Cardiac Surgery
domenico-calcaterra@uiowa.edu

Medical School:
University of Rome, Rome, Italy,
M.D., Magna Cum Laude 1992

University of Rome, Rome, Italy,
Ph.D., 2000

Residency:
University of Rome, Italy,
1992-1997 (General Surgery)

Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL
2000-2001 (General Surgery)

Hospital of Saint Raphael/Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
2001-2005 (General Surgery)

Fellowship:
Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, Florida 1998-1999 (Research)

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 1999-2000 (Clinical)

University of Miami: Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
2005-2007 (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2007-2008 (Surgery of the Aorta/Aortic Valve)

Certification:
America Board General Surgery - October 2006

American Board Thoracic Surgery – July 2008

Professional Affiliations:
Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Honors and Awards:
Ettore Ruggeri Award, Italian Surgical Society 1993
Trauma Award, ACS Connecticut Chapter Annual Meeting, 2003

Clinical Interests:
Aortic and aortic valve surgery
Endovascular procedures
Adult cardiac surgery
“Off-pump” Coronary artery by-pass surgery
"Beating" heart surgery

Research Interests:
Aortic surgery
Aortic Valve surgery

Links of Interest:
Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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