Alain Cribier

Alain Cribier, M.D., FACC, FESC (born 1945) is a French interventional cardiologist, who is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the University of Rouen's Charles Nicolle Hospital. Alain Cribier is best known for performing the world's first transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2002, the first mitral commissurotomy in 1995 and the first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986.[1][2][3]

Education

Cribier studied medicine at the University of Paris and completed his early residency training there. Cribier began his cardiology residency at the University of Rouen in 1972 and in 1976 he spent a year in an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California.[4][5]

Career

In 1983, Cribier was promoted to a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Catheterization Lab at the University of Rouen.[6] He developed and performed the world's first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986.[7] He performed the world's first mitral commissurotomy in 1995. 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 TAVI in 2002. [8] This procedure has now spread across the world and has saved countless patient's lives. In 1996, Cribier founded the Indo-French Foundation of Interventional Cardiology.[9]

In 2011, Cribier was made Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle in Rouen (France).[10]

Since 2013, Cribier has run the MTC (Medical Training Center) in Rouen (France), a multidisciplinary center dedicated to learning medicine through simulation, video-conferences and training between surgeons, physicians and experts.[11]

Awards and memberships
  • FACC - Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
  • FESC - Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
  • Ray C. Fish Award[12]
  • In 2017, Cribier received the Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Fondation.
  • In 2016, Cribier received the Legend of Medicine Award, C3 meeting in Orlando (USA) and the Gold Medal Award from the European Society of Cardiology in Rome, Italy.[13]
  • In 2015, Cribier received the Life Time Achievement Award, India-Live meeting in Chennai, India.[14]

See also

John G. Webb - performed the first transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2006

References
  1. Cribier, Alain (November 25, 2002). "Percutaneous Transcatheter Implantation of an Aortic Valve Prosthesis for Calcific Aortic Stenosis". Circulation. 106 (24): 3006–3008. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000047200.36165.B8. PMID 12473543.
  2. "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  3. Ozkan, Judith (March 2017). "Alain Cribier- the Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology". European Heart Journal. 38 (9): 615–616. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehx073. PMID 30052868.
  4. "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  5. "Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". Texas Heart Institute. Texas Heart Institute. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  6. "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  7. "Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". Texas Heart Institute. Texas Heart Institute. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  8. Alain, Cribier (15 March 2012). "Development of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): A 20-year odyssey". Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases. 105 (3): 146–152. doi:10.1016/j.acvd.2012.01.005. PMID 22520797.
  9. "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  10. "Alain Cribier Invivox Profile". INVIVOX. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  11. Alain, Cribier. "INVIVIOX". INVIVOX. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  12. "Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". Texas Heart Institute. Texas Heart Institute. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  13. "Alain Cribier Invivox Profile". INVIVOX. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  14. "Alain Cribier Invivox Profile". INVIVOX. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
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