Ray Hu, MD, MTR
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Director of Interventional Echocardiography, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2677607851
Education:
BA
Amherst College, 2008.
MTR
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2015.
MD
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2015.
Permanent linkBA
Amherst College, 2008.
MTR
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2015.
MD
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2015.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Multimodality cardiovascular imaging (echocardiography, CT, MRI) with a focus on the evaluation and guidance of transcatheter based therapies for structural heart disease.Selected Publications
Varun Bhasin, MD, Azin Vakilpour, MD, Aditya Parikh, MD, Srinivas Denduluri, PhD, Ray Hu, MD, and Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, MD, PhD: Utilization of Guideline Directed Medical Therapies and Transcatheter-Edge-to-Edge Repair in Patients with Significant Secondary Mitral Regurgitation. ACC Scientific Sessions Mar 2025.Oriol Rodriguez-Queralto , Corentin Chaumont, Alireza Oraii, Michal Wasiak, Helena Lopez-Martinez, Ray Hu, Victor A Ferrari, Jeffrey A Stiffler, Francis E Marchlinski : Impact of right pulmonary vein anatomical variations on the phrenic nerve trajectory and pulmonary vein isolation strategy: Preprocedural imaging and 3D mapping insights. Heart Rhythm Feb 2025.
Matthew Barrett MD, Biniyam G. Demissei MD, MSc, PhD, Ray Hu, MD, Amanda M. Smith MA, Gary Freedman MD, John Plastaras, MD, Steven Feigenberg, MD, Eva Berlin, MD, Hari K Narayan MD, Jinbo Chen PhD, Bonnie Ky MD, MSCE: 3D Echocardiographic Phenotyping of Left Ventricular Mechanics and Function With Contemporary Radiation Therapy Advances in Radiation Oncology 2025.
Oriol Rodriguez-Queralto, MD, Michal Wasiak, MD, Corentin Chaumont, MD, Alireza Oraii, MD, Helena Lopez-Martinez, MD, Victor Ferrari, MD, Ray Hu, MD, MS, Godefroy Chery, MD, Jeffrey Stiffler, BA, and Francis Marchlinski, MD: Impact of Right Pulmonary Vein Anatomical Variations on Phrenic Nerve Trajectory in Pulmonary Vein Isolation. AHA Scientific Sessions Nov 2024.
Varun Bhasin, MD, Nicholas Wilcox, MD, Mahesh Vidula, MD, Saurabh Jha, MD, Paco Bravo, MD, and Jui Hu, MD: Arrhythmogenic Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy in a Young Patient with Recurrent Syncope. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, London, United Kingdom 26(1), Mar 2024 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Aishwarya Gulati, Vaibhav Gulati, Ray Hu, Prabhakar Shantha Rajiah, Jadranka Stojanovska, Jennifer Febbo, Harold I Litt, Behzad Pavri, Baskaran Sundaram : Mitral Annular Disjunction: Review of an Increasingly Recognized Mitral Valve Entity. Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging 5(6), Dec 2023.
Matthew Barrett, Biniyam G. Demissei, Ray Hu, Amanda M. Smith, Gary Freedman, John Plastaras, Steven Feigenberg, Eva Berlin, Hari K. Narayan, Jinbo Chen, Bonnie Ky: Detailed 3D Echocardiographic Phenotyping of Changes in Left Ventricular Systolic Function Following Contemporary Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Lymphoma. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, National Harbor, Maryland May 2023 Notes: Oral Presentation.
Katherine C. Lee, Alison Pouch, Mahesh K. Vidula, Ray Hu, Howard C. Herrmann, Tiffany Chen: Fourth dimension, 10-fold faster: Dynamic segmentation of 3D-transesophageal echocardiography (3D-TEE) using an automated neural network for MitraClip transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). Journal of the American Society of Echocardiogrpahy, National Harbor, Maryland May 2023 Notes: poster presentation.
Hu R, Birati EY, Goldberg LR: Chronic Heart Failure Management. Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery 1(27), Jan 2022.
Selvaraj S, Hu R, Vidula MK, Dugyala S, Tierney A, Ky B, Margulies KB, Shah SH, Kelly DP, Bravo PE: Acute Echocardiographic Effects of Exogenous Ketone Administration in Healthy Participants. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 21: 00824-5, Nov 2021.