#  Prof. Marco A. Zenati, MD 

Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

 

 

 



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Dr. Marco Zenati is a tenured Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Surgeon in the Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston Healthcare System. He is the founder and the director of the [Medical Robotics & Computer-Assisted Surgery (MRCAS) Laboratory](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/mrcaslab) which has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the last 20 years.

Dr. Zenati attended Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy and graduated from the University of Verona School of Medicine Summa Cum Laude. He completed his surgical training at University of Verona and the University of Pittsburgh. In the 1990s he was deeply involved in the development of minimally invasive cardiac surgery and robotics, and he was among the first to pioneer their clinical applications.



 

 

 





 

 

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