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Program-At-A-Glance

Victor A. Ferrari, MD

Professor of Medicine and Radiology
University of PA Medical Center
Phila., Pennsylvania, United States

Victor A. Ferrari, MD, MSCMR, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FRCP (Lond., Hon.) is a Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) School of Medicine, the inaugural Chair of the Penn Cardiovascular Imaging Council, the immediate past Director of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) for the Penn Cardiovascular Institute, and the past Interim Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at the Hospital of the UPenn. He took his BSEE at Drexel University, and his MD, residency, and cardiology/CMR fellowships at UPenn. As a faculty member at Penn, he has won 6 teaching awards from the Department of Medicine housestaff and cardiology fellows, including the Christian and Mary Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the UPenn Provost’s Office. Dr. Ferrari is a Founding Member and a Past President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). He was the Inaugural Chair of the Certification Board for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, responsible for developing the first international board certification exam in CMR. He is a Past Chair for the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s Cardiac MR Study Group. He served on the Cardiac Imaging Committee of the American Heart Association (AHA) and is a Past Chair of the Imaging Council of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and a past member of the ACC Board of Governors. He served on several writing committees that produced imaging-related clinical competency and scientific statements and is currently a member of the ACC/AHA Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. His research interests include noninvasive assessment of right and left ventricular function, ventricular remodeling, optimizing surgical myectomy in HCM, high field imaging, and imaging of rodent models of cardiac diseases.

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