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Dr Francesca Pugliese

Francesca

Reader in Radiology (HCC), Consultant in Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging

Centre: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging

Email: f.pugliese@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 6906

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ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7497-6266

I qualified from Medical School of University of Genoa in 2000. My clinical training in imaging took place in Genoa. I was awarded my certificate of completion of speciality training in 2004. I then joined the non-invasive cardiac imaging group at the Thoraxcentre/Erasmus MC University Medical Centre Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and received my PhD with honors in 2008 entitled “Computed tomography of the coronary arteries”. Supported by a grant from the European Society of Cardiology, I moved to the UK in 2008. Since then I have worked for the Royal Brompton hospital and in the Cardiology group of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, at Hammersmith Hospital, in cardiovascular hybrid imaging (PET/CT). After contributing to the clinical service of the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre in Essex in 2009, I joined the Centre for Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging and the NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit at Barts as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in May 2010.

My main clinical and research interests are technical and clinical aspects related to non-invasive cardiac imaging (cardiac computed tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance, nuclear cardiology) in a range of heart conditions. I am a member of the Nucleus of the Working Group in Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT of the ESC, an executive committee member of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging and a Specialist Committee Member for NICE Diagnostic Assessment Programme.

 

Research

My research interests are directed towards the development, technical optimization and clinical implementation of multimodal non-invasive imaging, including computed tomography, positron emission tomography/hybrid imaging and magnetic resonance imaging in a range of heart conditions with a focus on ischaemic heart disease.

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Publications

  • Lo EWC, Pugliese F, Menezes L et al. (2026). A Novel Demography-Based Approach to Define Patient-Specific Outflow Boundary Conditions in CT-Based FFR Computations. nameOfConference


  • Kelham M, Beirne A-M, Learoyd AE et al. (2026). Computed tomography coronary angiography to facilitate clinical decision-making and selective invasive angiography in patients with prior bypass grafting presenting with acute coronary syndromes. nameOfConference


  • Yap NAL, He X, Tanboga IH et al. (2025). Implications of computed tomography reconstruction algorithms on coronary atheroma composition: A head-to-head comparison with multimodality near-infrared spectroscopy intravascular ultrasound imaging. nameOfConference


  • Sivananthan A, S M TK, Tanboga IH et al. (2025). Deep-learning analysis of computed tomography coronary angiography data enables more accurate computation of the shear stress distribution than conventional analysis by experts: A head-to-head comparison with near-infrared spectroscopy-intravascular ultrasound-based modelling. nameOfConference


  • Wahome E, Dangas K, Chan K et al. (2025). Deciphering the role of epicardial adipose tissue as a predictor of vascular and cardiac outcomes. nameOfConference


  • Ramasamy A, Sivananthan A, Mohammed A et al. (2025). Implications of imaging modalities on coronary vessel reconstruction and computation of the local hemodynamic forces. nameOfConference


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  • Chan K, Wahome E, Patel P et al. (2025). Coronary Inflammation Predicts Cardiac Risk In Patients With No And Moderate Coronary Calcification. nameOfConference


  • Dangas K, Wahome E, Chan K et al. (2025). QUANTIFICATION OF EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE VOLUME ON CARDIAC CT IS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC COMORBIDITIES. nameOfConference


  • Saberwal B, Patel K, Klotz E et al. (2025). Myocardial extracellular volume fraction by computed tomography vs. cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in patients with stable chest pain. nameOfConference


  • Kotronias RA, de Maria GL, Xie C et al. (2025). Benchmarking Photon-Counting Computed Tomography Angiography Against Invasive Assessment of Coronary Stenosis Implications for Severely Calcified Coronaries. nameOfConference


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Collaborators

  • Prof Magdi Yaqoob (WHRI)
  • Dr Andrew Wragg
  • Dr Saidi Mohiddin
  • Dr Fabrizio Smeraldi
  • Dr Lourdes Agapito (London, UK)
  • Dr Damini Dey (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Dr Alexia Rossi
  • Prof Pim J de Feyter
  • Prof MG Myriam Hunink (Rotterdam, NL)
  • Joerg  Hausleiter (Munich, DE)
  • Prof Hans-Erik Boetker
  • Dr Bjarne Linde-Norgaard (Arhus, DK)
  • Prof Joerg Hausleiter
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