Patrizio Lancellotti

Head of the Cardiology Department

MD PhD

University of Liège, Liège, BE

Expertise

Vascular Disease and Surgery Intervention Structural Intervention

Biography

Personal History

In 1970, Professor Lancellotti was born in Charleroi, Belgium to parents of Neapolitan origin.^{7, 8} He studied chemistry at the University of Labour Paul Pastur and graduated as a technician in 1988.⁷ It was his fascination with the heart and its physiology that drew him to cardiology and he has “always found that the heart was a noble organ.”⁹

Alongside Professor Gach and Dr Robinet, he implanted the first Micra™ (the world's smallest pacemaker) in Wallonia in 2017 and it placed the CHU de Liège/University Hospital of Liège among the centres of European leaders in cardiology.⁷

He is married with three daughters. His hobbies include classic opera, reading philosophy and finding time to jog regularly in his busy schedule.³

Academic History

Professor Lancellotti obtained his MD from the University of Liege, Belgium in 1995.3 At the University Hospital of Liège he obtained his Internship License in 1998 and received his cardiology license in 2000.³ He was licensed in the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital of Liège 2002 and received training in heart transplantation in 2001.³

He holds a PhD from the University Hospital of Liège and is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC).³

His major research areas are valvular disease and cardiac effects in malignancy. He has been the recipient of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant to develop new antithrombotic coatings of prosthetic heart valves.¹

Career Overview

Patrizio Lancellotti is Director of the Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics Cardiovascular Science Unit (GIGA) at the University of Liège, Belgium.⁸ Since 2017, he has served as Head of the Cardiology Department at the University of Liège Hospital.

Professor Lancellotti has served as both president of the Belgian Society of Cardiology and editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).^{1, 2}

He is an expert in cardiovascular imaging, valvular heart disease and interventional structural heart disease. He is the past Chair of the European Society of Cardiology Council on Valvular Heart Disease and is involved with several journal editorial boards. He was an Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal and is currently an Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging.⁵

Dr Lancellotti has been published in more than 330 peer-reviewed papers, has written numerous book chapters and has edited and co-edited some major cardiology textbooks.⁶These include the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging, the EACVI Echocardiography Textbook, the EACVI Handbook of Echocardiography and Secondary mitral valve regurgitation.⁵

Dr Patrizio Lancellotti is on the Editorial Board of European Cardiology Review.

Career Timeline

2002: PhD Thesis at University Hospital of Liège
2005: Thesis of Higher Education
2007: Clinical Professor, University Hospital Liège
2010: Professor, Cardiovascular Imaging at University of Liège
2012 - 2014: President, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
2014: Board Councillor, ESC
2019 - 2022: Chairperson, ESC Council on Valvular Heart Disease4
2017 - Present: Head, Echocardiography Laboratory and the Heart Valve Clinic
Present: Director, Cardiology Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital of Liège
Present: Professor, Cardiology at University of Liège, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège Belgium
Present: Director, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences Research Programme at the University of Liège

Recognition^{3, 6, 9}

2001 Young Investigator Award of the Belgian Society of Cardiology
2004 Jacqueline Bernheim Award of the Fondation pour la Chirurgie Cardiaque
2005 Best poster presented of the French Society of Cardiology
2005 Best poster presented of the XXVII Congress of the European Society of Cardiology
2006 Award from the Fondation Jaumain
2008 InBev Baillet Latour Award for Clinical Research in the Field of Cardiovascular Disease
2008 Lambertine Lacroix Award in the Field of Cardiovascular Disease
2013 Invited Professor for the 8th Annual Tajik/Seward lectureship, Mayo Clinic
2014 Honorary Member of the British Society of Echocardiography
2014 Honorary Citizen of the City of Liege, Belgium
2014 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology
2020 FNRS Quinquennal Prize in Clinical Biomedical Sciences
2021 Recognized as the 17th World Expert and 1st Expert in Belgium in Heart Diseases by Expertscape