Richard W. Bianco

Contact Information Phone: 612-625-5914 Fax: 612-626-6949 Email: bianc001@umn.edu Address: Department of Surgery Experimental Surgical Services 420 Delaware Street SE Mayo Mail Code 220 Minneapolis, MN 55455 Administrative Assistant: Steff Yorek Location: 310 VCRC Phone: 612-625-4937 Email: yorek001@umn.edu

Associate Professor
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