Residents' Visiting Professor Grand Rounds: The Heart Avatar: Advanced Imaging to Create Virtual Simulations for Management of Heart Disease

The Heart Avatar: Advanced Imaging to Create Virtual Simulations for Management of Heart Disease

Dr. Karen Ordovas is a Professor of Radiology and Section Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging at the University of Washington. She specializes in advanced cardiac and pulmonary imaging, in particular cardiovascular MR and CT. She received her medical degree from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and completed her residency in Radiology at the Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She has completed research and clinical fellowships in cardiothoracic radiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and earned a master’s degree in clinical research from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. She is a fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular MRI (SCMR), American Heart Association, and North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI).

Dr. Ordovas is currently the Vice-President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. In addition to serving on the SCMR Executive Board, Dr. Ordovas is deeply engaged in the main radiology and cardiology societies in her field. She is the past president of the North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), Chair of the American College of Radiology Cardiology Research Committee, and Chair of the RSNA cardiac scientific program subcommittee.