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Program-At-A-Glance

Harold I. Litt, MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology
Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania
Miami, Florida, United States

Harold Litt MD-PhD, FAHA, FNASCI is Professor of Radiology and
Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania
and former Chief of the Cardiothoracic Imaging Division in the Department of
Radiology. He is currently Director of Research of the Diagnostics Institute of Cleveland Clinic Florida.
He was the principal investigator of the ACRIN-PA 4005 multicenter
trial concerning the use of coronary CT for evaluation of emergency department
chest pain patients and first author of the April 2012 NEJM publication of the
trial results. His other clinical and research interests include MR imaging of
patients with implanted pacemakers and defibrillators (the program at Penn that
he initiated has scanned over 10000 patients to date), MR imaging of scar in
nonischemic heart disease, and mathematical modeling of cardiac structure and
function. He has been a frequent invited lecturer at SCMR and served as chair
of the SCMR membership committee, participated in the society’s strategic
planning process and in the mentoring program since its inception. More
recently, he has focused on international outreach; he initiated the associate
member category for SCMR and planned the first CMR course ever given in South
Africa. He also helped to organize SCMR sponsored courses in China, India,
Peru, and Argentina. He currently serves as Deputy Editor for Cardiac MRI for the
journal Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging

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