Mirko Belliato is Director of the Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia service and ICU of the Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo of Pavia Italy, Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy for the Perfusionist School and for the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Post-graduate School. He obtained thePhD degree at the Heart & Vascular Centre of Maastricht University Medical, University of Limburg (The Netherland). Since 2007, he has been part of the hospital’s ECMO team for all types of extracorporeal support and now is Director of the ELSO center “Foundation San Matteo, Italy”. In 2016 he was appointed as leader of the EuroELSO workgroup for “Innovation on ECMO and ECLS”. In the 2019 he is elected as member of the Steering Committee of EuroELSO and from April 2024 he is the President of EuroELSO.
