Mirko Belliato, MD
is Director of the 2nd Anesthesia and of the Cardiothoracic ICU of Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo of Pavia Italy and of the Perfusionist School of the University of Pavia, Italy and he obtained the PhD 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. 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 new President of EuroELSO.