Dr. Victoria Delgado, is currently the head of the cardiovascular imaging department of the Heart Institute at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol and scientific director of the Centre of Competitive Medicine and Bioimaging in Badalona, Spain. She graduated in medical school at the University of Barcelona (Spain), accomplished her training in Cardiology at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona (Spain) and followed a 3-year fellowship at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) where she was appointed as cardiologist with expertise on multimodality imaging from 2010 till 2021. She obtained her PhD degree cum laude in 2010 at the Leiden University with the thesis entitled Novel Cardiac Imaging Technologies: Implications in Clinical Decision Making.

Her currently ongoing projects focus on multimodality imaging in valvular heart disease and heart failure. She has participated in several multicenter registries on coronary artery disease and cardiomyopathies and in randomized controlled trials such as the RHEIA study (comparing TAVI vs SAVR in women) and the TAVR-UNLOAD (TAVR in moderate aortic stenosis with heart failure). She has more than 700 per-reviewed publications, and an H-factor of 84. She has contributed to more than 200 text books, including the worldwide recognized landmark book Hurst’s The Heart, 15th edition. She has been co-promotor of 17 PhD students and currently supervises 6 PhD fellows. She was awarded with the Outstanding Scholarship Simon Dack award of the Journal of American College of Cardiology in 2014. In addition, she has received many research grants from public institutions in Spain, the European Society of Cardiology and has contributed to raise funding from public institutions and industry for more than 1M €. She is currently president of Scientific Commission Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé – 4 (SVS-4) of the F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium) and has formed part of several grant selection panels.

She has been serving as reviewer in many international peer-reviewed journals, forms part of the Editorial Board of Heart, European Heart Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging and Canadian Journal of Cardiology. She has been Associate Editor of the Journal of American Society of Echocardiography and she is currently Senior Editor of Circulation. She has been very much involved at the European Society of Cardiology, in several task force of guidelines, in the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, European Observational Registry Programme and ESC Congress programme committee. She has been councilor of the ESC Board and is currently the President-elect of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.