Dr. Pierantonio Russo performed 55 pediatric heart transplants, including a 3-day old neonate, one of the youngest patients receiving a heart transplant in the USA.
CHERRY HILL, NJ, July 13, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pierantonio Russo, MD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all considered during the selection process.
Dr. Russo has practiced cardiac thoracic and heart transplant surgery for over 20 years and more recently he has taken on executive roles in data and analytics, health economics and reimbursement, health insurance and population medicine. Currently, he is the Chief Medical Officer of Eversana A&D Unit and is on the advisory board of several health services organizations.
After leaving the Mayo Clinic, from 1988 to 2007, he held academic, clinical, and administrative leadership positions as Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation and at several academic hospitals in the USA, including Temple University, St Christopher's Hospital, Thomas Jefferson Medical College and the University of Missouri, and was a fellow in heart transplantation and circulatory mechanical support at the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX.
Dr. Russo was initially inspired to enter the field of medicine and cardiac surgery by following the news that Dr. Christiaan Barnard had performed the very first cardiac transplant in Cape Town in 1968. Prior to embarking upon his professional journey, he earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Bologna, Italy, summa cum laude in 1978. Following his graduation, he underwent initial training in surgery and cardiac surgery at the University of Bologna affiliated hospitals. Dr. Russo subsequently went through advanced fellowships in cardiothoracic surgery and complex congenital heart disease in London (London Chest and Great Ormond Street Hospitals) and then the Mayo Clinic from 1984 to 1986. In 1987, he returned to the UK, first in London and then at Reading University, as adjunct faculty in physiology and researcher in fetal physiology. In 1988, he moved to Philadelphia, USA, where he was offered the position of Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Surgical Director of the Pediatric Heart Institute, Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, and full-time faculty at Temple University Medical, first as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Surgery. In Philadelphia he held additional faculty positions as Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson Medical College and Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Pediatrics at Allegheny University. Between 1988 and 1998, as Director of Heart Transplant at St. Christopher's Hospital, he performed 55 pediatric heart transplants, including a 3-day old neonate, one of the youngest patients receiving a heart transplant in the USA. In 2001, Dr. Russo became the Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and then led the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Missouri School of Medicine until September 2007. During his tenure, he also operated as guest surgeon in Latvia, Columbia (SA), Romania, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
At the end of 2007, he started a new executive career as Medical Director at Independence Blue Cross (IBC), Philadelphia, but continued to operate on children with congenital heart disease for GOLI (Gift of Life International) in India.
As Medical Director at Independence Blue Cross, he worked with the data analytic team to design predictive and prescriptive analytics that guided the appropriate utilization of remote monitoring, digital solutions and telemedicine for IBC members with advanced HF. In 2016, he moved to Boston where he held the position of Vice President of Health Services at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and was responsible for managing utilization management, providers network, medical cost and medical policies, advanced disease management programs, including practice integration of behavioral health with primary care, across four markets (MA, ME, NH, CT). In addition, during this time, Dr. Russo was Council Chair and Board member of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality Partners (http://www.mhqp.org/) and on the Harvard Medical School Faculty as Lecturer in Population Medicine.
In November 11, 2017, he received the Health Hero Award in Boston in recognition of significant contributions to the health and welfare of the community (https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/11/12/heroes-health-care-recognized-annual-gala/8pxDocAZzUR6XCQchsqq4H/story.html). Dr. Russo's teaching experience spans over 27 years. He held full-time academic positions in surgery and pediatrics at Temple Medical School, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Allegheny University (PA) and the University of Missouri (MO). In addition, he taught for the Wharton School of Business (International Program), a postgraduate MBA course on health care quality entitled: "Managing the Performance of Health Care Organizations." From 2006 to 2016 he was adjunct professor of biotechnology at Temple University, Philadelphia, where he has provided mentorship to post graduate students and has had an advisory role to the Office of the President of the SHRO (https://shrodotorg/).
More recently, Dr. Russo was CMO at two population health services organizations: Behave Care (now Upward Health) and Springs Hills Population Health (NJ), and CMO at HVH Precision Analytics.
Throughout the course of his career, Dr. Russo has authored and co-authored numerous works in his field, contributing articles and abstracts to professional journals and chapters to various books. Most recently, he published "Cost Efficiency plus Quality Measures: Prescription for the Indian Health Care Sector" with IBS Insights in 2015 and "Measuring the Cost Associated with Quality" with Managed Care Magazine the same year. He also wrote "Management of fetal cardiac anomalies" in 1993, "High frequency jet ventilation: Intraoperative application in infants" in 1994 and "Cardiac Surgery in the newborns and infants" in 2005.
Dr. Russo is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and member of the Society of Thoracic Surgery and professional member of the American Heart Association and holds a Certificate in Health Care Innovation-Health and Health Care Administration Management from the University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia and a Certificate in Digital Medicine (Node.Health).
As CMO at HCH and now Eversana, his current professional interest is to expand the application of machine learning and predictive analytics in health care applications.
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