Michel Pompeu Sá is a Cardiovascular Surgeon from Latin America (Brazil) and currently the International Cardiac Surgery Fellow for the cycle 2024-2025 at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA). Previously, he was the Aortic and Endovascular Surgery Fellow for the cycle 2023-2024 at UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute (University of Pittsburgh, USA) and the TSF/STS Every Heartbeat Matters Global Structural Heart Fellow (cycle 2022-2023) funded by the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (Society of Thoracic Surgeons) and was trained in Structural Heart and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at Lankenau Heart Institute (Philadelphia, USA). He is first author of publications in JAHA, JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVES), European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EJCTS), Annals of Thoracic Surgery, CCI, JSCAI, American Journal of Cardiology, Structural Heart Journal and others. His clinical and research interests include heart valve diseases (surgical, minimally invasive, transcatheter therapies) and aortic diseases (surgical, endovascular and hybrid approaches for treatment of acute/chronic aortic dissections and aortic aneurysms).