Information

Membership Number: FCA1159

Membership Type: Full Fellowship

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: gaetano.thiene@unipd.it

Homepage(s): https://www.unipd.it/sites/unipd.it/files/senior/THIENEGAETANOcurriculumseniorweb.pdf

Present and Previous Positions

Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Pathology at the University of Padua

Degree in Medicine, University of Padova (1972)
ECFMG (1972)
Post-graduate Diploma in Cardiology, University of Padova (1975)
Post-graduate Diploma in Pathological Anatomy, University of Trieste (1978)
Assistant Professor, University of Padova (1972-1983)
Associate Professor, University of Padova (1983-1990)
Full Professor, University of Padova (1990 to 2017)
Director Institute of Pathological Anatomy (1998-2006)
Vice Dean, Department of Medical Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies (2007-2010) 

1992-1994 President, Paediatric Cardiology, Italian Society

2004-2006 President, Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, USA 

2005-2007 President, Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Prof. Gaetano Thiene’s research interests have been across cardiovascular medicine and pathology, particularly in clinicopathologic studies and clinical translation of basic research as well as surgical pathology of native and prosthetic valves.

He first reported Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy as a major cause of sudden death in the young and in athletes (NEJM 1988) and has contributed to the elucidation of its genetic basis (Human Genetics 2004). He is a principal architect of the Italian programme in which all young individuals who participate in sports activities are screened for potential cardiovascular problems. Prof. Thiene is the leader of the group in Padua which has worked at the interface between pathology and genetics in the cardiomyopathies and has identified several disease-causing mutations, correlating them with the clinical and pathological features of the disease. He has published 1015 reports of original investigations and reviews in Index leading journals of pathology and cardiovascular medicine, and in addition has co-authored and/or co-edited 25 monographs.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

1991 Ordinary Fellow, Olympic Academy, Vicenza (ITALY) 

2002 Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London (UK) 

2003 Foreign Fellow, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Beograd (SERBIA) 

2008 Active Fellow, Galileian Academy, Padua (ITALY) 

2016-2022 President, Olympic Academy, Vicenza (ITALY) 

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dpGD-5IAAAAJ&hl=en

Other Information

https://www.eacts.org/faculty/gaetano-thiene/ 

https://www.ctsnet.org/home/gthiene