MD, PhD

Marianna Fontana is the Director of the UCL CMR unit at the Royal Free Hospital. She is Professor of Cardiology and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London, where she is deputy Head of Center for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins and deputy clinical lead of the National Amyloidosis Center. She obtained her Medical degree (MD) and qualifications as a cardiologist at the University of Pisa. She undertook a PhD at UCL which focused on CMR in cardiac amyloidosis. She was awarded with an intermediate fellowship from the British Heart Foundation in 2018. She has co-authored 168 peer reviewed publications with >8300 citations (h-index 46).