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Victor A. Ferrari, MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
11-136 South Pavilion
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 662-2912
Fax: (215) 615-3652
Graduate Group Affiliations
Education:
B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
Drexel University, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, Matriculated in five-year Cooperative Education Program., 1982.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1986.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern and Resident in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1986-1989.
Assistant Instructor in Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, 1987-1989.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, 1989-1992.
Fellow in Cardiology, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA , 1989-1992.
Subspecialty Fellowship in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1992-1993.
Certifications
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1986.
Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1990.
Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases , 1991.
Recertified, American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, 2001.
Certified, National Board of Echocardiography: Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echo , 2004.
Diplomate, Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, 2010.
Recertified, National Board of Echocardiography: Transthoracic, Transesophageal, and Stress Echo , 2014.
Recertified, American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases , 2022.
Recertified, National Board of Echocardiography: Transthoracic, Transesophageal, and Stress Echo , 2024.
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Description of Research Expertise

Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT

Description of Clinical Expertise

Noninvasive cardiac imaging, ventricular remodeling, pulmonary hypertension

Selected Publications

Fessehaie NA, Bediako H, Kallan MJ, Levin M, Adusumalli S, Bravo P, Pieretti J, Scherrer-Crosbie M, Ferrari VA, Denduluri S, Anyanwu E, Julien H, Eberly LA: Utilization rates and determinants of PYP and CMR among patients with unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy on echocardiography. International Journal of Cardiology 438: 133562, November 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2025.133562; Epub ahead of print, June 2025.

Rodriguez-Queralto O, Chaumont C, Oraii A, Wasiak M, Lopez-Martinez H, Hu R, Ferrari VA, Stiffler JA, Marchlinski FE: 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 22(8): e456-e464, August 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.02.033.

Shuvaev VV, Tam YK, Lee BW, Myerson JW, Herbst A, Kiseleva RY, Glassman PM, Parhiz H, Alameh MG, Pardi N, Muramatsu H, Shuvaeva TI, Arguiri E, Marcos-Contreras OA, Hood ED, Brysgel TV, Nong J, Papp TE, Eaton DM, Riley R, Palanki R, Musunuru K, Brenner JS, Mitchell MJ, Ferrari VA, Mui BL, Semple SC, Weppler SA, Atluri P, Margulies KB, Weissman D, Muzykantov VR: Systemic delivery of biotherapeutic RNA to the myocardium transiently modulates cardiac contractility in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(29): e2409266122, July 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1073/pnas.2409266122.

Ravindra K, Vanchiere C, Ferrari VA: A rare cause of constrictive pericarditis: Primary pericardial mesothelioma. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Case Reports 30(16): 103802, June 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.103802.

Oraii A, Hanumanthu BKJ, Petzl A, Liao TW, Afzalian A, Rodriguez-Queralto O, Chaumont C, Spears J, Markman TM, Hyman MC, Tschabrunn CM, Guandalini G, Enriquez A, Shivamurthy P, Kumareswaran R, Deo R, Ferrari VA, Riley MP, Lin D, Callans DJ, Supple GE, Schaller RD, Frankel DS, Garcia FC, Nazarian S, Dixit S, Marchlinski FE: Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with cardiac amyloidosis and sarcoidosis: procedural findings and outcomes. Europace 27(6): euaf100, June 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1093/europace/euaf100.

Guo Z, Dong NJ, Litt H, Yushkevich N, Freas M, Nunez J, Ferrari V, Hao J, Goldfinger S, Jolley MA, Bavaria J, Desai N, Pouch AM: Towards patient-specific surgical planning for bicuspid aortic valve repair: Fully automated segmentation of the aortic valve in 4D CT. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1109/ISBI60581.2025.10981269.

Fogel MA, Faerber JA, Mahmood A, Reddy K, Zhang X, Goldmuntz E, Harris MA, Biko D, Partington S, Paridon S, Mcbride M, Ferrari V, Whitehead KK, Mercer-Rosa L: Clinical outcome prediction model in Tetralogy of Fallot without pulmonary valve replacement using contraction fraction from the SCOUT-TOF Registry. Journal of the American Heart Association 14(10): e037983, May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.037983.

Shiwani H, Davies RH, Topriceanu CC, Ditaranto R, Owens A, Raman B, Augusto J, Hughes RK, Torlasco C, Dowsing B, Artico J, Joy G, Miranda I, Witschey W, Rodriguez-Palomares JF, Badia-Molins C, Crotti L, Cortina-Borja M, Chuang ML, Kwong RY, Kramer CM, Manning W, Ho CY, Kellman P, Hughes AD, Biagini E, Mohiddin S, Lopes L, Litt H, Ferrari VA, Captur G, Moon JC; PRECISION-HCM Collaborative: Demographic-based personalized left ventricular hypertrophy thresholds for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy diagnosis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 85(7): 685-695, February 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.10.082.

Ge Y, Antiochos P, Bernhard B, Heydari B, Steel K, Bingham S, Mikolich JR, Arai AE, Bandettini WP, Patel AR, Shanbhag SM, Farzaneh-Far A, Heitner JF, Shenoy C, Leung SW, Gonzalez JA, Shah DJ, Raman SV, Ferrari VA, Schulz-Menger J, Stuber M, Simonetti OP, Kwong RY: Stress CMR perfusion imaging in the Medicare-eligible population: Insights from the SPINS study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging 18(1): 33-44, January 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2024.07.029.

Bernhard B, Ge Y, Antiochos P, Heydari B, Islam S, Santiuste NS, Steel KE, Bingham S, Mikolich JR, Arai AE, Bandettini WP, Patel AR, Shanbhag SM, Farzaneh-Far A, Heitner JF, Shenoy C, Leung SW, Gonzalez JA, Raman SV, Ferrari VA, Shah DJ, Schulz-Menger J, Stuber M, Simonetti OP, Kwong RY: Association of adverse clinical outcomes with peri-infarct ischemia detected by stress cardiac magnetic imaging. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 84(5): 417–429, July 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.04.062.

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