Chiara Bucciarelli Ducci

Victoria Delgado

Training and Education • Medical School, University of Barcelona, 1999 • Training Cardiology, Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona, 2000-2005 Post Graduate Degrees • PhD, University of Leiden, 2007-2010 - thesis: Novel Cardiac Imaging Technologies: Implications in Clinical Decision Making • Supervision of thesis of 9 PhD fellows European Society of Cardiology Activities • Task Force member of 2013 ESC guidelines on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy • Task Force member of 2019 ESC/EASD guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes and cardiovascular diseases • Task Force member of 2019 ESC/EAS guidelines on dyslipidemia • Member of the ESC guidelines committee 2016 to current • Oversight committee member of the European Observational Registry Program of ESC 2016-2018 • Councillor of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging 2014-2016 • Chair of the Scientific Documents committee of the EACVI 2016-2018 • Member of the ESC Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease 2015 Other International Scientific Committee Participation • Member Spanish Society of Cardiology, 2006-current • Member Dutch Society Cardiology, 2010-current Editorial Boards • Associate Editor of Circulation since 2015 • Associate Editor of the Journal of American Society of Echocardiography since 2018 • Member Editorial Board European Heart Journal, 2015 • Member Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 2012-current • Member Editorial Board Heart, 2014-current • Member Editorial Board of Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, 2013-current Fellowships / Honours • Simon Dack Award for Outstanding Scholarship to support the JACC Journals, 2014 • Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology since 2016 • Women Transforming Leadership Programme award from ESC 2018

Currículum Vitae

Dr. Victoria Delgado is the Head of the Cardiovascular Imaging Department of the Heart Institute at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, as well as the Scientific Director of the Centre of Comparative Medicine and Bioimaging in Badalona, Spain. She graduated from the medical school at the University of Barcelona and completed her clinical residency in cardiology at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. Following this, she undertook a three-year fellowship at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, where she remained as a specialized multimodality imaging cardiologist from 2010 until 2021, and earned her PhD cum laude with a thesis focused on novel cardiac imaging technologies.

Dr. Delgado is a highly cited investigator with an H-factor of 94 and more than 800 peer-reviewed publications. She has contributed to more than 20 medical textbooks, including the landmark publication Hurst's The Heart. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and currently serves as a Senior Editor for the journal Circulation. Her extensive leadership within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) spans multiple guideline task forces, the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, and a role as a councilor on the ESC Board. She currently serves as the President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.