Alain Cribier, FACC, FESC (born 1945) is a French interventional cardiologist, who is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the

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'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.

Education

Cribier obtained his MD medical degree at the

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and completed his early residency training there. Cribier began his cardiology residency at the

in 1972 and in 1976 he spent a year in an interventional cardiology fellowship at the

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Career

In 1983, Cribier was promoted to a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Catheterization Lab at the

. He developed and performed the world's first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986. He performed the world's first mitral commissurotomy in 1995. Following discovery that the balloon aortic valvuloplasty for severe

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was not effective in 80% of patients after one year he performed the first ever TAVI in 2002. 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. In 2011, Cribier was made Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle in

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(

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). 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.

Awards and memberships

*FACC -

Fellow of the American College of Cardiology The American College of Cardiology (ACC), based in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit medical association established in 1949. It bestows credentials upon cardiovascular specialists who meet its qualifications. Education is a core component of the ...

*FESC -

Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental professional association that works to advance the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, and improve scientific un ...

*Ray C. Fish Award *In 2017, Cribier received the

Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Fondation The Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande (Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation) is an award conferred annually by the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation at the Institut de France The (; ) is a French ...

. *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

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. *In 2015, Cribier received the Life Time Achievement Award, India-Live meeting in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cribier, Alain 1945 births Living people French cardiologists University of Paris alumni Fellows of the American College of Cardiology French expatriates in the United States

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