Gherardo Finocchiaro

Dr Gherardo Finocchiaro is a consultant cardiologist at St George's Hospital and Associate professor in Cardiology at St George’s University of London. He spent one year at Stanford University (CA, US), focusing his research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and athlete’s heart, gaining a post-doctoral diploma. He subsequently specialised cardiovascular magnetic resonance at The Heart Hospital imaging center and at St George’s Hospital in London. Gherardo Finocchiaro has level 3 accreditation in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (EACVI) and is accredited in echocardiography by the British Society of Echocardiography. He completed a PhD at St George’s University of London focusing on sudden death in athletes, family screening in decedents of sudden death and physiological adaptation to exercise. Dr Finocchiaro won several awards and grants for his research and published several papers in highly ranked journals.

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