Marsan Nina Ajmone

Dr. Nina Ajmone Marsan is a cardiologist, specialized in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging and currently working at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands), where she is a Senior Academic Researcher. Her main research topic is the clinical applications of imaging in cardiovascular disease, with special focus on valvular heart disease (including guiding trans-catheter interventions), on cardiomyopathies and systemic disease. She is also the principal investigator of translational research projects in mitral and aortic valve disease, for which she won the prestigious Dekker Clinical Established Investigator Grant of 2021. She has more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and she supervised >20 PhD students (12 ongoing). She was awarded with the Research Grant of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2007, she is Fellow of the ESC for scientific excellence since 2016 and she was awarded with the Women Transforming Leadership Program ESC grant of 2019. She is in the board of European association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) as echo councillor and Chair of the Education Committee 2020-2022; She is also mentor for ESC and EACVI young members and director of the international courses "EACVI TOE teaching course", "3Dechocardiography:meet the experts" and "Madrid Valve" held yearly. She is Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal since 2020 and also of the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. Brief summary of Education: - Graduation cum-laude in Medicine-University of Pavia, Italy.2000 - Specialty cum-laude in Cardiology–University of Pavia, Italy.2005 - PhD cum-laude at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands (Prof. J.J. Bax,2006-2011) - Postdoc Fellowship in 3D-echocardiography at Centro Cardiologico Monzino (Dr. M. Pepi), Milan, Italy.2010