Dr Laura Corsinovi

Dr Laura Corsinovi specialises in all aspects of general cardiology with more than 20 years of experience in diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart problems such as valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias.

Dr Corsinovi has a special interest in cardiac Imaging. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography (transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echocardiography). In her career has performed thousands of scans attaining the highest International Certifications (Level 3)* in all these cardiac modalities.

She is also a consultant in General Medicine and she is a strong believer of holistic approach to patient healthcare comprising doctor–patient trust and open communication. She works closely with the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield where she holds a Honorary Consultant Contract. She works also closely to Southampton University Hospital.

After a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, with honours, from the University of Genoa, Italy, she specialized in Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics from the University of Turin, Italy. She also completed a PhD degree in 2008 on Heart Failure.

Dr Corsinovi came to the UK in 2014 after working at various University Hospitals, in Italy. She gained further experience at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital before becoming a consultant at her current NHS trust in 2016.

She is a respected name in medical research and has more than 20 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals and presented at National and International Conferences.

Dr Corsinovi is driven by providing excellent care for all her patients and contributing to develop the future generation of healthcare professionals. As such she busies herself in teaching junior doctors of different seniority and various healthcare professionals (i.e nurses, cardiac physiologist, pharmacists). Before focusing on Medical Education, she held the role of Governance Lead of the Cardiology Department at Hampshire Hospitals. She is the Director of very successful Hands-on Echocardiography Courses, certified at national level by the British Society of Echocardiography. She is part of the national BSE assessors for the national certification of transthoracic Echocardiography.

* Level 3 international certifications in cardiac imaging are: European Society of Cardiology Certification for transthoracic echocardiogram and transoesophageal echocardiogram; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Certification for cardiac MRI: Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography for CT coronary angiography. In the last years she has performed an average of 400 MRIs, 300 CTCAs and 350 advanced echocardiograms per year.