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'''Alain Cribier''', M.D., FACC, FESC (born 1945) is a French interventional cardiologist, who is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the [[University of Rouen]]'s Charles Nicolle Hospital. Alain Cribier is best known for performing the world's first [[transcatheter aortic valve implantation]] in 2002, the first mitral commissurotomy in 1995 and the first [[balloon aortic valvuloplasty]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cribier|first1=Alain|title=Percutaneous Transcatheter Implantation of an Aortic Valve Prosthesis for Calcific Aortic Stenosis|journal=Circulation|date=November 25, 2002|pages=3006–3008|doi=10.1161/01.CIR.0000047200.36165.B8|pmid=12473543|volume=106|issue=24|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|publisher=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Alain Cribier- the Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology|journal=European Heart Journal|volume=38|issue=9|pages=615–616|date=March 2017|doi=10.1093/eurheartj/ehx073|pmid=30052868|last1=Ozkan|first1=Judith|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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'''Alain Cribier''', [[American College of Cardiology|FACC]], [[European Society of Cardiology|FESC]] (25 January 1945 – 16 February 2024) was a French interventional cardiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the [[University of Rouen]]'s Charles Nicolle Hospital. Alain Cribier was best known for performing the world's first [[transcatheter aortic valve implantation]] in 2002, first transcatheter mitral commissurotomy in 1995, and first [[balloon aortic valvuloplasty]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cribier|first1=Alain|title=Percutaneous Transcatheter Implantation of an Aortic Valve Prosthesis for Calcific Aortic Stenosis|journal=Circulation|date=25 November 2002|pages=3006–3008|doi=10.1161/01.CIR.0000047200.36165.B8|pmid=12473543|volume=106|issue=24|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Alain Cribier- the Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology|journal=European Heart Journal|volume=38|issue=9|pages=615–616|date=March 2017|doi=10.1093/eurheartj/ehx073|pmid=30052868|last1=Ozkan|first1=Judith|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Early life==
Alain Cribier was born on 25 January 1945.<ref>[https://www.pcronline.com/About-PCR/40-years-angioplasty/Spotlight-on/Alain-Cribier Alain G. Cribier] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217224229/https://www.pcronline.com/About-PCR/40-years-angioplasty/Spotlight-on/Alain-Cribier |date=17 February 2024 }} PCR Online</ref> He had Romanian ancestry and, as a child, spent many holidays with his uncle in [[Brăila]], which Cribier described as his "favourite place".<ref>http://m.stiri.tvr.ro/un-cardiolog-din-franta--cu-origini-romanesti--are-sanse-sa-fie-propus-pentru-premiul-nobel-in-medicina--alain-cribier-a-salvat-milioane-de-vieti-printr-o-procedura-de-implantare-a-valvei-aortice_941861.html</ref>{{dead link|date=February 2024}}


==Education==
==Education==
Cribier studied medicine at the [[University of Paris]] and completed his early residency training there. Cribier began his cardiology residency at the [[University of Rouen]] in 1972 and in 1976 he spent a year in an interventional cardiology fellowship at the [[Cedars-Sinai Hospital]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|publisher=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology|url=http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|website=Texas Heart Institute|publisher=Texas Heart Institute|accessdate=15 April 2015}}</ref>
Cribier obtained his [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] medical degree at the [[University of Paris]] and completed his early residency training there. Cribier began his [[cardiology]] residency at the [[University of Rouen]] in 1972 and in 1976 he spent a year in an [[interventional cardiology]] fellowship at the [[Cedars-Sinai Hospital]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology|url=http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|website=Texas Heart Institute|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128232947/http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
In 1983, Cribier was promoted to a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Catheterization Lab at the [[University of Rouen]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|publisher=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He developed and performed the world's first [[balloon aortic valvuloplasty]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology|url=http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|website=Texas Heart Institute|publisher=Texas Heart Institute|accessdate=15 April 2015}}</ref> He performed the world's first mitral commissurotomy in 1995. Following discovery that the [[balloon aortic valvuloplasty]] for severe [[aortic stenosis]] was not effective in 80% of patients after one year he performed the first ever TAVI in 2002.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Alain|first1=Cribier|title=Development of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): A 20-year odyssey|journal=Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases|date=15 March 2012|volume=105|issue=3|pages=146–152|doi=10.1016/j.acvd.2012.01.005|pmid=22520797|doi-access=free}}</ref> This procedure has now spread across the world and has saved countless patient's lives. In 1996, Cribier founded the Indo-French Foundation of Interventional Cardiology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|publisher=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
In 1983, Cribier was promoted to a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Catheterization Lab at the [[University of Rouen]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He developed and performed the world's first [[balloon aortic valvuloplasty]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology|url=http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|website=Texas Heart Institute|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128232947/http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref> He performed the world's first mitral commissurotomy in 1995. Following discovery that the [[balloon aortic valvuloplasty]] for severe [[aortic stenosis]] was not effective in 80% of patients after one year he performed the first ever [[transcatheter aortic valve replacement]] (TAVR) in 2002.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Alain|first1=Cribier|title=Development of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): A 20-year odyssey|journal=Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases|date=15 March 2012|volume=105|issue=3|pages=146–152|doi=10.1016/j.acvd.2012.01.005|pmid=22520797|doi-access=free}}</ref> This procedure has now spread across the world and has saved countless patients' lives. In 1996, Cribier founded the Indo-French Foundation of Interventional Cardiology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Alain Cribier|url=http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|website=Cardiovascular News|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415151120/http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-archives/cardiovascular-news-issue-6/profile-alain-cribier|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2011, Cribier was made Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital [[Charles Nicolle]] in [[Rouen]], [[France]].<ref name=Invivox>{{Cite web|url=https://www.invivox.com/profile/256-cribier-alain|title=Alain Cribier Invivox Profile|last=|first=|date=|website=INVIVOX|language=en|access-date=25 January 2017|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025725/https://www.invivox.com/profile/256-cribier-alain|url-status=dead}}</ref>


From 2013, Cribier ran the MTC (Medical Training Center) in Rouen, a multidisciplinary centre dedicated to learning medicine through simulation, video-conferences and training between surgeons, physicians and experts.<ref name=Invivox/>
In 2011, Cribier was made Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle in [[Rouen]] ([[France]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.invivox.com/profile/256-cribier-alain|title=Alain Cribier Invivox Profile|last=|first=|date=|website=INVIVOX|language=en|access-date=2017-01-25}}</ref>


==Death==
Since 2013, Cribier has run the MTC (Medical Training Center) in Rouen (France), a multidisciplinary center dedicated to learning medicine through simulation, video-conferences and training between surgeons, physicians and experts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.invivox.com/profile/256-cribier-alain|title=INVIVIOX|last=Alain|first=Cribier|date=|website=INVIVOX|language=en|access-date=2017-01-25}}</ref>
Cribier died on 16 February 2024, at the age of 79.<ref>{{cite news |title=Professeur de renom au CHU de Rouen, Alain Cribier est mort à l'âge de 79 ans |url=https://www.paris-normandie.fr/id495141/article/2024-02-17/professeur-de-renom-au-chu-de-rouen-alain-cribier-est-mort-lage-de-79-ans |access-date=17 February 2024 |publisher=Paris Normandie |archive-date=17 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217214722/https://www.paris-normandie.fr/id495141/article/2024-02-17/professeur-de-renom-au-chu-de-rouen-alain-cribier-est-mort-lage-de-79-ans |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Awards and memberships==
==Awards and memberships==
*FACC - Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
*FACC [[Fellow of the American College of Cardiology]]
*FESC - Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
*FESC [[Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology]]
*Ray C. Fish Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology|url=http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|website=Texas Heart Institute|publisher=Texas Heart Institute|accessdate=15 April 2015}}</ref>
*Ray C. Fish Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology|url=http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|website=Texas Heart Institute|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128232947/http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/News/2013-12-10news_Cribier_Ray_C_Fish_Award.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref>
*In 2017, Cribier received the [[Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Fondation]].
*In 2017, Cribier received the [[Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Fondation]].
*In 2016, Cribier received the Legend of Medicine Award, C3 meeting in Orlando (USA) and the Gold Medal Award from the European Society of Cardiology in [[Rome]], [[Italy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.invivox.com/profile/256-cribier-alain|title=Alain Cribier Invivox Profile|last=|first=|date=|website=INVIVOX|language=en|access-date=2017-01-25}}</ref>
*In 2016, Cribier received the Legend of Medicine Award, C3 meeting in Orlando (USA) and the Gold Medal Award from the European Society of Cardiology in [[Rome]], [[Italy]].<ref name=Invivox/>
*In 2015, Cribier received the Life Time Achievement Award, India-Live meeting in [[Chennai]], [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.invivox.com/profile/256-cribier-alain|title=Alain Cribier Invivox Profile|last=|first=|date=|website=INVIVOX|language=en|access-date=2017-01-25}}</ref>
*In 2015, Cribier received the Life Time Achievement Award, India-Live meeting in [[Chennai]], [[India]].<ref name=Invivox/>


==See also==
==See also==
[[John G. Webb]] - performed the first transapical [[transcatheter aortic valve implantation]] in 2006
* [[John G. Webb]] performed the first transapical [[transcatheter aortic valve implantation]] in 2006


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:50, 22 February 2024

Alain Cribier
Born(1945-01-25)25 January 1945
Died16 February 2024(2024-02-16) (aged 79)
NationalityFrench
EducationMD (University of Paris)
OccupationCardiologist
Known forPioneering surgical procedures

Alain Cribier, FACC, FESC (25 January 1945 – 16 February 2024) was a French interventional cardiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the University of Rouen's Charles Nicolle Hospital. Alain Cribier was best known for performing the world's first transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2002, first transcatheter mitral commissurotomy in 1995, and first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986.[1][2][3]

Early life

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Alain Cribier was born on 25 January 1945.[4] He had Romanian ancestry and, as a child, spent many holidays with his uncle in Brăila, which Cribier described as his "favourite place".[5][dead link]

Education

[edit]

Cribier obtained his MD medical degree at the University of Paris and completed his early residency training there. Cribier began his cardiology residency at the University of Rouen in 1972 and in 1976 he spent a year in an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California.[6][7]

Career

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In 1983, Cribier was promoted to a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Catheterization Lab at the University of Rouen.[8] He developed and performed the world's first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986.[9] He performed the world's first mitral commissurotomy in 1995. Following discovery that the balloon aortic valvuloplasty for severe aortic stenosis was not effective in 80% of patients after one year he performed the first ever transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 2002.[10] This procedure has now spread across the world and has saved countless patients' lives. In 1996, Cribier founded the Indo-French Foundation of Interventional Cardiology.[11]

In 2011, Cribier was made Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle in Rouen, France.[12]

From 2013, Cribier ran the MTC (Medical Training Center) in Rouen, a multidisciplinary centre dedicated to learning medicine through simulation, video-conferences and training between surgeons, physicians and experts.[12]

Death

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Cribier died on 16 February 2024, at the age of 79.[13]

Awards and memberships

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ Cribier, Alain (25 November 2002). "Percutaneous Transcatheter Implantation of an Aortic Valve Prosthesis for Calcific Aortic Stenosis". Circulation. 106 (24): 3006–3008. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000047200.36165.B8. PMID 12473543.
  2. ^ "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  3. ^ Ozkan, Judith (March 2017). "Alain Cribier- the Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology". European Heart Journal. 38 (9): 615–616. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehx073. PMID 30052868.
  4. ^ Alain G. Cribier Archived 17 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine PCR Online
  5. ^ http://m.stiri.tvr.ro/un-cardiolog-din-franta--cu-origini-romanesti--are-sanse-sa-fie-propus-pentru-premiul-nobel-in-medicina--alain-cribier-a-salvat-milioane-de-vieti-printr-o-procedura-de-implantare-a-valvei-aortice_941861.html
  6. ^ "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". Texas Heart Institute. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". Texas Heart Institute. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  10. ^ Alain, Cribier (15 March 2012). "Development of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): A 20-year odyssey". Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases. 105 (3): 146–152. doi:10.1016/j.acvd.2012.01.005. PMID 22520797.
  11. ^ "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  12. ^ a b c d "Alain Cribier Invivox Profile". INVIVOX. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  13. ^ "Professeur de renom au CHU de Rouen, Alain Cribier est mort à l'âge de 79 ans". Paris Normandie. Archived from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Dr. Alain Cribier, Who Pioneered Heart Valve Replacement with Catheter, Receives Texas Heart Institute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". Texas Heart Institute. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2015.