Antonio Colombo is Senior Consultant at Humanitas Clinical Research Hospital, in Milan, Italy and Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in Columbus Hospital in Milan, Italy.

Prof. Antonio Colombo has been General Coordinator of GVM- Care and Research Group, Cardiac Laboratories in Italy for the past two years and Director of Invasive Cardiology at San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Professor of Cardiology at University Vita e Salute in Milan for the past 20 years.

Prof. Colombo performed landmark work in the field of coronary stenting, intravascular ultrasound and stent thrombosis.

He has been one of the early initiators of TAVI procedures in Italy refining some aspect of this procedure.

Antonio Colombo is on the Editorial Board of all major Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology Journals. He received several recognitions including the TCT Career Achievement Award and the PCR Ethica Award.

He published over 1000 papers in peer review journals, several books in the field of coronary interventions and contributed with chapters in the most important Interventional Cardiology books.