Diana benea

BENEA Diana Crina Mihaela Ciresica M.D. 
Date of birth: 04.06.1972
Place of birth: Baia Sprie, Romania
Email: dianabna@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 
September 2019 - present: Senior Cardiologist at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy, Minithoracotomy and Transcatheter Cardiac Surgery Unit (Chief Department dr. Marco Diena). Extensive experience in the echocardiographic evaluation in the Operating room and Intensive Therapy Unit, echo and clinical management in the surgery ward, in a reference european centre for complex cardiac surgery and perioperative critical care (ECMO, Impella, IABP) with about 800 surgery cases/year. 

2008 - 2019: Cardiologist and Echocardiographer at San Gaudenzio Clinic, Novara, Italy -  growing experience in echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac surgery patients, with focus on mitral valve and aortic valve repair, as well as in echo evaluation and guidance of percutaneous procedures as TAVI and MitraClip, closure of septal defects and paravalvular leaks. Experience in electrophysiology in the field of pacemaker implantation.

2005 – 2008 Cardiologist at the Emergency Universitary Hospital Bucharest, Romania. Various stages and courses in echocardiography in Romania and abroad (Vienna - Austria, Novara and Pisa - Italy).

March 2005, National Institute of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Fundeni, Bucharest, Romania: confirmation as Specialist in Cardiology.

1997 – 2005: doctor in training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Emergency Universitary Hospital Bucharest, Romania.

1997: M.D. title conferred by the Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania.