Dr. Mario Gaudino completed his medical training at the Catholic University in Rome in 1999 and completed his Fellowship in Adult Cardiac Surgery at the University of Chieti in 2000. From 2000 to 2014 he served as Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Catholic University in Rome, where he developed and expanded upon his knowledge and expertise as it pertains to the use of arterial conduits in coronary artery bypass surgery. In 2014, he joined Weill Cornell Medicine and was named the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2016, a title which he still holds. Since 2015, he has also served as the Director of Translational and Clinical Research in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. In 2017 he was appointed Chair of the Coronary Artery Surgery Task Force, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Gaudino has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is the author of 6 book chapters. He has given presentations at more than 30 national and international meetings. He has studied and described, in detail, the morphologic, functional and technical aspects of the use of the radial artery as a bypass graft. In 2015, he conceived and launched the Cornell International Consortium for research in Aortic Surgery, an international consortium based at Weill Cornell Medicine which includes some of the most important groups in basic research, diagnosis and treatment of aortic pathologies. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the upcoming international ROMA (Randomized comparison of the clinical Outcome of single vs. Multiple Arterial grafts) Trial, to be launched in January 2018.