Victor A. Ferrari - Faculty Biosketch

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

Email:
ferrariv@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Graduate Group Affiliations

Bioengineering

Publications

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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.
Fellow in Cardiology, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA , 1989-1992.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 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.

Jneid H, Abdullah AR, Ferrari VA, Kovacs RJ, Mukherjee D, Shimbo D: Guidance for incorporating FDA processes into the ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guideline methodology: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Page: S0735-1097(25)06479-4, September 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.05.006. Online ahead of print.

Jneid H, Abdullah AR, Ferrari VA, Kovacs RJ, Mukherjee D, Shimbo D: Guidance for incorporating FDA processes into the ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guideline methodology: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Circulation September 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001357. Online ahead of print.

Otto CM, Abdullah AR, Davis LL, Ferrari VA, Fremes S, Mukherjee D, Prestera L, Ziaeian B: 2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines Core Principles and Development Process: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Circulation September 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001383. Online ahead of print.

Otto CM, Abdullah AR, Davis LL, Ferrari VA, Fremes S, Mukherjee D, Prestera L, Ziaeian B: 2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines Core Principles and Development Process: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Page: S0735-1097(25)06838-X, September 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.06.013. Online ahead of print.

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.