Scandroglio Anna Mara Professore AssociatoMedicineMEDS-23/A - Anestesiologia

Anna Mara Scandroglio, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. At IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, she directs the Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, and leads the advanced heart failure and mechanical circulatory support program.

Her clinical and scientific work is dedicated to critically ill patients with advanced heart failure, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and severe respiratory failure. She has extensive experience with short-term and long-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS) and extracorporeal support. This experience ranges from venoarterial and venovenous ECMO to microaxial flow pumps and left ventricular assist devices (LVAD).

Her main research interests include:
• short-term and long-term MCS in cardiogenic shock and advanced heart failure, including microaxial flow pumps, ECMO, and LVAD: device selection, escalation and weaning strategies, hemodynamic monitoring and imaging, hemocompatibility, and complications;
• extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for refractory cardiac arrest;
• venovenous ECMO for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS);
• organ protection in cardiac surgery.

She has authored more than 220 indexed publications (over 10,000 citations, h-index 39) and is regularly invited to speak at national and international meetings in the field.

She has served as site principal investigator for international studies and registries, including the ARIES-HM3 randomized trial and the EuroECMO-COVID, EUROMACS, and ImCarS registries. She has also contributed to large multicenter randomized trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.