Associate Professor
Associate Vice President for Regulatory Affairs
Institutional Official for Animal Care and Use
Office of the Vice President for Research
Program Director, ESS

Research

Selected Publications

RP Gallegos, AL Rivard, PT Suwan, S Black ,S Bertog, U Steinseifer, A Armien, M Lahti, RW Bianco. In-Vivo Experience with the Triflo Trileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve, J of Heart Valve Disease 2006;15:791-799

Gallegos RP, Nockel PJ, Rivard AL, Bianco RW, The Current State of In-vivo Pre-clinical Heart Valve Evaluation, J of Heart Valve Disease, May;14(3) 2005

Grehan JF, Casagrande I, Oliveira EL, Santos PC, Pessa CJ, Gerola LR, Buffolo E, Mrachek J, Norris ME, Lahti MT, Bianco RW.  A juvenile sheep model for the long-term evaluation of stentless bioprosthesis implanted as aortic root replacements.  J Heart Valve Dis. 2001 Jul;10(4):505-12

Ouyang DW, Salerno CT, Pederson TS, Bolman III RM, Bianco RW.  Long-Term Evaluation of Orthotopically Implanted Stentless Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves in Juvenile Sheep. J Invest Surg 1998;11:175-83.

Bianco RW, Phillips R, Mrachek JP, Witson J.  Feasibility evaluation of a new pericardial bioprosthesis with dye mediated photo-oxidized bovine pericardial tissue

Education & Training

B.A.
University of Minnesota, 1976

GraduateSchool
University of Minnesota Program in CV Physiology, 1985-1988

Curriculum Vitae