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Office
200 S Enota Dr NE
Gainesville, GA 30501Phone+1 770-599-2193
Summary
- Dr Stéphane Rinfret is an interventional cardiologist and world-renowned expert in CTO PCI. After a 20-year carreer in Canada, and 3 years at Emory from 2021-2023, he has now been appointed Director of Complex Coronary Intervention at the Georgia Heart Institute. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and has been invited over 300 times to give lectures in the past 10 years. He is a high-volume coronary operator, with procedures performed predominantly in high-risk patients turned down for CABG or with complex post-CABG coronary anatomy. He is the founder and co-director of MLCTO, the largest CTO-dedicated course in Europe, and Editor of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion; the Hybrid Approach, 2nd Edition published by Springer Nature. Dr Rinfret serves as faculty in several cardiology meetings, and pursues very active clinical, research, proctoring and teaching career.
Education & Training
- University of Montreal Faculty of MedicineClass of 1992
Certifications & Licensure
- GA State Medical License 2021 - 2026
- FL State Medical License 2023 - 2025
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 19 citationsDevelopment and validation of a scoring system for predicting clinical coronary artery perforation during percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion...Spyridon Kostantinis, Bahadir Simsek, Judit Karacsonyi, Khaldoon Alaswad, Farouc A Jaffer
Eurointervention. 2023-01-23 - 227 citationsGuiding Principles for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Global Expert Consensus DocumentEmmanouil S. Brilakis, Kambis Mashayekhi, Etsuo Tsuchikane, Nidal Abi Rafeh, Khaldoon Alaswad
Circulation. 2019-07-30 - 13 citationsFive-Year Follow-up of the Plaque Sealing With Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents vs Medical Therapy for the Treatment of Intermediate Nonobstructive Saphenous Vein Graft Lesio...Josep Rodés-Cabau, Olivier F. Bertrand, Eric Larose, Jean-Pierre Déry, Stéphane Rinfret
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2014-01-01
Press Mentions
- Frequency and Outcomes of Ad Hoc Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights from the PROGRESS-CTO RegistryAugust 15th, 2023
Professional Memberships
- Fellow
- Society of Coronary Angiography and InterventionsFellow
Other Languages
- French
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