Docteur alain cribier biography

French cardiologist (–)

Alain Cribier
Born	()25 January Paris, France
Died	16 February () (aged&#;79) Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Nationality	French
Education	MD (University of Paris)
Occupation	Cardiologist
Known&#;for	Pioneering surgical procedures

Alain Cribier, FACC, FESC (25 January – 16 February ) was a French interventional cardiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the University of Rouen's Charles Nicolle Hospital.

Docteur alain cribier biography Join our newsletter! Early life [ edit ]. Education [ edit ]. Cribier always remained humble and committed to his colleagues and the betterment of patient care.

Alain Cribier was best known for performing the world's first transcatheter aortic valve implantation in , first transcatheter mitral commissurotomy in , and first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in ^[1][2][3]

Early life

Alain Cribier was born on 25 January ^[4] He had Romanian ancestry and, as a child, spent many holidays with his uncle in Brăila, which Cribier described as his "favourite place".^{[5][dead link&#;]}

Education

Cribier obtained his MD medical degree at the University of Paris and completed his early residency training there.

Cribier began his cardiology residency at the University of Rouen in and in he spent a year in an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California.^[6][7]

Career

In , Cribier was promoted to a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Catheterization Lab at the University of Rouen.^[8] He developed and performed the world's first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in ^[9] He performed the world's first mitral commissurotomy in Following discovery that the balloon aortic valvuloplasty for severe aortic stenosis was not effective in 80% of patients after one year he performed the first ever transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in ^[10] This procedure has now spread across the world and has saved countless patients' lives.

In , Cribier founded the Indo-French Foundation of Interventional Cardiology.^[11]

In , Cribier was made Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle in Rouen, France.^[12]

From , Cribier ran the MTC (Medical Training Center) in Rouen, a multidisciplinary centre dedicated to learning medicine through simulation, video-conferences and training between surgeons, physicians and experts.^[12]

Death

Cribier died on 16 February , at the age of ^[13]

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