Editor Profile
Prof. Dr. Federico Benetti
Director and Chief
Present
Fundación Benetti, Cardiovascular
Rosario
Argentina
Prof. Dr. Federico Benetti is an Argentine cardiac surgeon internationally recognized as a pioneer of minimally invasive and off-pump heart surgery. He has served as President, Director, and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Benetti Foundation in Rosario, Argentina since 1991, and was Director Emeritus of the Minimally Invasive Cardiac Institute at the Miami Heart Institute and Medical Center between 1998 and 2000. Over his career, he has published 128 scientific papers, contributed 10 book chapters, delivered more than 1,000 lectures and live conferences worldwide, and received 20 international awards along with honorary memberships in five medical societies. Dr. Benetti performed the world’s first off-pump coronary surgery in Argentina in 1978, introduced a surgical technique for fibrosed interventricular septum in 1990, and in 1994 carried out the first Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB). He went on to perform the first minimally invasive mitral valve replacement using 3D visualization in 1996, describe aortic valve replacement via right anterior thoracotomy with 3D in 1997, and achieve the world’s first ambulatory coronary bypass through the xiphoid approach (MINI OPCAB) that same year. He has trained surgeons in 45 countries in off-pump techniques and holds 31 U.S. technology patents along with two method patents for MIDCAB and the xiphoid approach. Today, he continues his groundbreaking work at the Benetti Foundation in Rosario, advancing the field of cardiac surgery.
- Cardiac Surgery
- Stem Cells
