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Curriculum Vitae

Paolo Voci, MD PhD

Address                      Via Merulana, 13  00185                                               Rome, Italy

Phone (home)            +39 06 66158122

Phone (hosp)              +39 06 20901

Mobile phone             335 8061981

e-mail                         paolovoci@gmail.com

Born                           Rome, Italy  July 9 1957

High School               1970-1975 Liceo Classico                                            "Giulio Cesare" Rome, Italy

Foreign languages     English 

 

Medical education

1975-1981MD Degree, University of Rome "La Sapienza" School of Medicine (110/110 cum laude)

1980 Internship in Cardiology, Episcopal Hospital, Temple University, Director: Prof Gerardo Voci

            1981-1985 School of Specialization in Cardiology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (60/60 cum laude), Director: Prof Attilio Reale, President of the European Society of Cardiology

            1985-1988 Full-time Assistant in Internal Medicine, Columbus Hospital, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

1988-1991 "Dottorato di Ricerca" (PhD) in "Scienze Cardiologiche", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

1988, 1989 Research experience at the University of Chicago, Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Director: Prof Steven B Feinstein

1990-2003 Assistant in Cardiology, Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. Chief of the Echocardiography laboratory and intraoperative echocardiography

2004- Researcher in Cardiology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

1998-1999 Visiting Professor of Medicine. Rush University. Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA

2004Scholar of the Italian Society of Cardiology

2018- Consultant Cardiologist. Prime Minister of Italy, Palazzo Chigi, Rome

 

CV Highlights

 

Introduced in Italy Transesophageal echocardiography and intraoperative echocardiography (1988)

Described an original method to produce ultrasound contrast agents (1992)

Demonstrated the feasibility of non-invasive myocardial opacification with self-produced ultrasound contrast agents (1993-1995)

Demonstrated imaging of the retinal arteries and anterior spinal artery, which are sensitive markers of central nervous system perfusion in cardiac and aortic surgery

Developed an original method to detect false lumen perfusion during surgical repair of aortic dissection

Pioneer in noninvasive measurement of coronary blood flow reserve by transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography (1997)

Responsible or blinded reader of several international research protocols in GCP

 

 

Editorial appointments

 

            1988-2000Member of the Editorial Staff of                 "Cardiologia" the Official Journal  of the                      Italian Society of Cardiology

2000-2004 Member of the scientific board of the Italian Heart Journal, Director

Prof Attilio Maseri

1995-2021 Reviewer for JACC, Circulation, American Journal of Cardiology and European Heat Journal

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology

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