Affiliation: Università degli Studi di Milano; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico.

Santi Trimarchi, MD, PhD, is a vascular surgeon. His clinical interests include both open surgery and endovascular treatment of thoracic, thoracoabdominal and abdominal aortic diseases, primarily dissections and aneurysms. From 1997 to 2018, Prof. Trimarchi has been serving as attending surgeon at the IRCCS Policlinico San Donato – Cardiovascular Center in Milan, becoming director of the Thoracic Aortic Research Center in 2011, and head of the section of Vascular Surgery in 2015. From November 2018, he is head of the Vascular Surgery Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan. So far, he has performed more than 4000 operations, both with open and endovascular techniques. From April 2015 to November 2021, Prof. Trimarchi was an Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Milan, where, from October 2016 to September 2022, he was chair of the vascular surgery residency program. From December 2021 he is a Full Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Milan.

As an active researcher, Prof. Trimarchi is co-PI of the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD), co-director of the IRAD Surgical/Endovascular program, co-PI of the Gore GREAT registry, and co-investigator in other international registries, including the European Registry of EVAR complication (EuREC) and the International Aortic Arch Surgery Study Group (IAASSG). In addition, he is promoter and supervisor of a PhD program on aortic diseases, in collaboration with Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

He is a Committee member of :

• the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS) for the extension of the guidelines on Thoracic Aortic Diseases, 2017
• the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS) for the extension of the guidelines on Abdominal Aortic Diseases, 2020
• the Italian Society of Vascular Surgery (SICVE) for the guidelines on Thoracic Aortic Diseases, 2022

From 2020 he is a member of the ESVS guidelines steering committee.