Victor A. Ferrari, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Staff Echocardiographer, Cardiovascular Noninvasive Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA
Co-Director, Visiting Fellowship in Cardiac and Vascular Magnetic Resonance , Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Chair, Penn Cardiovascular Imaging Council, University of Pennsylvania Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, and Department of Radiology
Department: Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
11-136 South Pavilion
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
11-136 South Pavilion
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 662-2912
Fax: (215) 615-3652
Fax: (215) 615-3652
Publications
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.
Permanent linkB.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.
Description of Research Expertise
Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CTDescription of Clinical Expertise
Noninvasive cardiac imaging, ventricular remodeling, pulmonary hypertensionSelected 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.