Alberto Marra

Professional Activities

01.2016-dato
SDN Research Institute Research Fellow (50%) and Attending Physician (50%) Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension.
Thorax clinic at Heidelberg University (Germany)

08.2014-12.2015
Heart Failure Unit
(Outpatient clinic, Cardiopulmonary exercise test. Trans-thoracic Echocardiography)
Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Facility "Federico II" University Hospital, Naples (Italy)

07.2009-07.2014
Resident in Internal Medicine
(Rotation in Internal Medicine, non-invasive Cardiology, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, Respiratory Medicine, Nephrology, Emergency)
Internal Medicine Specialty program "Federico II" University Hospital, Naples (Italy)

Education and Academic Appointments

2001-2008
Medical School degree, "Federico II" University Naples (Italy).
Main project: "Age related Multiple Anabolic Deficiency in patients with Heart Failure with special focus on the GH/IGF-1 axis” (Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Cittadini). Published on J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Sep;94(9):3329-36. (IF: 5.455)

2009-2014
Internal Medicine Specialist, "Federico II" University Naples (Italy).
Main project: "Effects of Riociguat on Right Ventricle size and function in patients with pulmonary hypertension" (Supervisor Prof. Paolo Rubba). Published on Int J Cardiol. 2015 195:19-26 (IF: 6.189)

2016-dato
MD-candidate Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (Germany)
Title of the MD-thesis: "Assessment of exercise hemodynamics measured by right heart catheterisation in patients with systemic sclerosis" (Supervisor Prof. Ekkehard Grūnig). Defence planned in October 2018

2016-dato
PhD-candidate, "Sapienza" University, Rome (Italy)
Title of the PhD-Thesis : "Hormonal Abnormalities in patients with Right Heart Failure" (Supervisor Prof. Stefania Basili). PhD-Defence planed in December 2019

Scientific Societies

European Federation of Internal Medicine: Secretary-Young Internists of Europe, Chairman of the "Internal Medicine Assessment of Gender differences in Europe (IMAGINE)" Working Group

Società Italiana di Medicina Interna: Chairman of the "Research" Working Group - Italian Young Internists

Member of Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Deutsche Gesellschaft fūr Kardiologie and the European Respiratory Society.

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