Professor of Medicine and Radiology/Chair, Penn CV Imaging Council
University of PA Medical Center
Victor A. Ferrari, MD, FSCMR, FACC, FAHA, FASE 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 former 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 5 teaching awards from the Department of Medicine housestaff and cardiology fellows, including the Donald B. Martin Teaching Service Award, the Francis H. Sterling Award for Educational Excellence, and the Mark E. Josephson Cardiovascular Medicine Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. His clinical skills have been recognized by the William Smilow Award for Innovation in Clinical Excellence, as well as a Patient Advocacy Award. He is a recent winner of the Penn Heart and Vascular Center “Heart Hero” Award. Dr. Ferrari is a Founding Member and a Past President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), an international organization dedicated to research, education, and clinical applications of CMR. He is a Past Chair for the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s Cardiac MR Study Group. He has served on the Cardiac Imaging Committee of the American Heart Association and is the immediate Past Chair of the Imaging Council of the American College of Cardiology. He served on several writing committees that produced imaging-related clinical competency and scientific statements. His research interests include noninvasive assessment of right and left ventricular function, ventricular remodeling, atherosclerotic plaque imaging, high field imaging, and imaging of rodent models of cardiac diseases.
Wednesday, February 6
3:55 PM – 4:15 PM
Friday, February 8
8:10 AM – 8:25 AM
Friday, February 8
9:55 AM – 10:15 AM