Tuomas T. Rissanen
Interventional / Structural Cardiology
University of Eastern Finland
About
Tuomas T. Rissanen works in Interventional / Structural Cardiology affiliated with University of Eastern Finland.
Tuomas T. Rissanen is Professor of Cardiology (part-time) at the University of Eastern Finland since 2024 and Head of the Heart Center at North Karelia Central Hospital in Joensuu, Finland since 2018. He is an interventional cardiologist who received his MD and PhD degrees in 2006 from Kuopio University, Finland, and qualified as a cardiologist in 2012. His research focuses on interventional cardiology, including drug-coated balloons and gene therapy for blood vessel growth.
Research focus
Drug-coated balloon angioplastyComplex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)Chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCICardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)Gene therapy for angiogenesis
Impact
132 pubs · 7,122 cites · h-index 41
Training
MD, PhD
University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio)
2006
Affiliations
Work Experience
University of Eastern Finland
2024 - Present
North Karelia Central Hospital
2018 - Present