Pim Tonino is Head of the Cath lab of the Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, since 2014. As an Interventional Cardiologist he focusses on Intracoronary Physiology, Complex PCI and Structural Heart Interventions. He is Secretary of the Steering Board of the Working Group on Catheter-based Heart Valve interventions of the Dutch Cardiology Society and Dutch Cardiothoracic Society. In 2010 Pim achieved his PhD degree at the Technical University Eindhoven (TUE). The topic of his Thesis was Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) in Multi-vessel Disease Patients: the main focus of this thesis was the FAME 1 study, published in New England Journal of Medicine, for which Pim was First Author. Pim is Lecturer at the TUE since 2019 and supervises medical doctors and medical engineers in PhD-projects focusing on Intracoronary and Aortic Valve Physiology.
Outcomes following self-expanding transcatheter or surgical aortic valve implantation in patients at low operative risk stratified by need for revascularization