Organizing Committee Member
SOPHIE MAVROGENI
Professor
Onassis Cardiac-Surgery Center , Greece
Greece
Biography
Current Position: Cardiologist, Vice-director in Onassis Cardiac-Surgery Center, Athens, Greece. In charge of cardiac patients’ clinical evaluation -treatment and routine- research cardiac MRI scans. Visiting professor of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. ? Responsible for research cardiovascular MRI scans in Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (a leading tertiary center in Athens), which is the only Greek center with active CMR research and publications. ? Routine scans include Cases with congenital heart disease (referred by cardiac surgeons). ARVD (referred by the cardiologists).
Research Area
Thalassemic patients (referred by hematologists for iron overload estimation). Duchenne and Becker myopathy cases (referred by neurologists for pre-symptomatic cardiac involvement evaluation). Patients with coronary aneurysm or ectasia and with Kawasaki syndrome (for coronary MRA). Vasculitis in rheumatic disease. Cardiac evaluation in different types of Rheumatic diseases (special interest in scleroderma). Myocarditis (infective, autoimmune, transplant rejection)