Anders Franco-Cereceda

Anders Franco-Cereceda

Professor/Senior Physician
Visiting address: Tema Hjärta, Kärl och Neuro, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset, 17176 Stockholm
Postal address: K1 Molekylär medicin och kirurgi, K1 MMK Thoraxkirurgi, 171 76 Stockholm
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About me

  • I was born in Stockholm 1959 and have lived here basically all my life. After graduation from "Gymnasium" and military service I enrolled in Medical School at Karolinska Institutet 1981. I defended a thesis in Parmacology 1988 and became associate professor (docent) in Pharmacology 1990. To continue a clinical career I then returned to my studies and became a MD in 1992 and specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 1997 to become professor and senior consultant in 2005. In 1999 I spent a sensational year at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. I have the fortune of having a fantastic job and feel most previledged to work in an environment helping patients as well as allowing me to persue interesting research areas in my speciality. I am married to lovely Brita and we have two adorable kids, Madeleine and Fredric. I enjoy arts and antiques at my free time and also like to spend time in the garden of our summer house in the Stockholm archipelago.

    Education
    MD 1992-08-03
    ECFMG/USMLE 1999-04-01
    License to practice Medicine, US 1999-2000
    PhD
    Dr. Med. Sci., Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet 1988-05-20

    POST-DOC
    Department of Cardiac Surgery, 1999-07-01-
    Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA 2000-06-30

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (DOCENT)
    Pharmacology, KI 1990-04-25
    Cardiothoracic Surgery, KI 1999-04-20

    BOARD CERTIFIED
    Cardiothoracic surgery 1997-09-14

    Bibliometry (2024)
    Publications (Pub med): 300
    Citations (WoS): >17 000
    H-index (WoS): 60

    Academic honours, awards and prizes
    Alvarenga's price, Swedish Society of Medicine 1987
    Lindahl's scholarship, Royal Academy of Science 1988
    Viking O. Björk Scholarship, SSCT 1998
    Evarts A. Graham Memorial Fellowship, AATS 2000

    Member AATS 2020

Research

  • Please se added documents below.

    Primarily interested in diseases of the aortic valve and ascending aorta.

    PI of ASAP (Advanced Study or Aortic Pathology), DAVAACA (Disease Aortic Valve Ascending Aorta Coronary Arteries) and ARTIST (Aortic Radiology Therapeutic Intervention Surveillance Trial). Assembling clinical, laboratory, genetic and proteomic data with biopsies and CT/EKO of 3000 patients undergoing open heart surgery.

    International collaboration in:
    Fighting Aneurysm Disease (FAD): project within the EU VIIth frame programme(Health-F2-2008-200647) (Anders Franco-Cereceda och Per Eriksson).

    Fondation Leducq (www.fondationleducq.org) Transatlantic Networks of Excellence. MIBAVA is a project coordinated from Antwerp and Baltimore including participants from Toronto, Montréal and Lübeck, see also http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.MIBAVA-LEDUCQ&;n=116810.(KI participants: Anders Franco-Cereceda och Per Eriksson).

    Nordic Consortium for Acute Aortic Dissection (NORCAAD), Nordic (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland) multicenterstudy of aortic dissections (Anders Franco-Cereceda och Christian Olsson).

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2023
  • Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
    1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021
  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2017 - 31 December 2020
  • Fondation Leducq
    1 January 2012
    Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), a condition in which there are two valve leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital cardiac malformation, affecting from 1% to 2% of the population.  It appears to be highly heritable, is more common in males than females, and is frequently associated with other aortic pathology, such as ascending aortic aneurysm. The goal of the MIBAVA network is to identify factors that affect the clinical outcome of patients with BAV, with particular attention to the progression of aortic aneurysm.  The scope of the research program will span natural history and epidemiologic studies, exploration and application of advanced imaging techniques, use of advanced genetic methods to identify disease-related genes and pathways, basic science investigations to identify predisposing mechanisms at the biochemical, cellular and tissue level, and the complementary use of various model systems.  With progress in understanding the etiology of aneurysm formation, the network will turn to the search for novel therapeutic strategies and the development of individualized treatment protocols.

Employments

  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2005-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 1999

Leadership and responsibility assignments

  • Head of department, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2016-2025

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