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Alessia Pepe, MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology, Deputy Director
University of Padua
Padua, Veneto, Italy

Alessia Pepe is Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Radiology, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy. Since Oct 2021 in Padua, she has been working as in quality of III level Cardiovascular Imaging Coordinator. She graduated in Medicine in 1999 at University of Palermo, Italy where she also completed her postgraduate cardiological training in 2003, her postgraduate radiological training in 2014, and she obtained the Ph.D. in 2007. From 2006 to Sept 2021, she was consultant at the Multimodality Cardiovascular MR Unit, Monasterio Foundation - National Research Council, Pisa and Massa, Italy where more than 2500 patients were clinically scanned every year in the whole field of the cardiology. In 2022, she obtained the national scientific qualification as full professor in radiology.
Her scientific work on MRI includes 180 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 42, 5383 citations), 12 textbooks chapters, more than 600 communications in international meetings and one international patent on myocardial iron overload quantification.
Her main research interest is about the application of CMR in rare disease, specifically hemoglobinopathies, autoimmune rheumatic disease, and restrictive cardiomyopathies. For 15 years, she was the PI of the MIOT (Myocardial Iron Overload in Thalassemia) network involving 76 thalassemia and MRI Italian centres and where MRI tailored chelation therapy changed the prognosis of more than 2700 rare patients 10 and one of the largest thalassemia database was built.
She served the MR, cardiotoxicity, and gender committees of the Italian Society of Cardiology. Since 2018 she has been member of women in CMR and Cardio-Rheumatology WG of SCMR, and she serve the SCMR Board Exam Review Course for CMR board certification. Since 2022 she has been served the guidelines committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology that produced statements Standards for conducting and reporting consensus and recommendation documents, aortic diseases, and valvular diseases. She served on several writing committees that produced statements on cardiovascular imaging in thalassemia, scleroderma, restrictive cardiomyopathies, MR normal reference values and indications.
She was the Director of 18 CMR meetings/courses. In Pisa and in Padua she has mentored more than 300 fellows in cardiovascular imaging. In Padua she is responsible for ESOR/ ESCR fellow in cardiovascular imaging. She was invited to more than 100 national and international congresses.
She was board editorial member for Atherosclerosis Plus and she is board editorial member for Tomography and European Radiology Cardiovascular and Thoracic.

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