Dr Alessandro Giardini

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant paediatric cardiologist, Great Ormond Steet Hospital (2007 - present)
• Consultant paediatric cardiologist, Harley Street Clinic (present)
• Consultant paediatric cardiologist, The Portland Hospital (present)
• Consultant paediatric cardiologist, Chase Farm Hospital (present)
• Consultant paediatric cardiologist, The Cromwell Hospital (present)
• Consultant paediatric cardiologist, University of Bologna (2004 - 2007)

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 Sub-specialties

• Chest pain 
• Heart murmur 
• Palpitations
• Syncope
• Echocardiogram
• Paediatric cardiology
• Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)

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 Education

• PhD, Paediatric cardiology, Università di Bologna (2007)
• CCST, Cardiology (Paediatric Cardiology), Università di Bologna (1999 – 2004)
• MD, Universita degli Studi di Bologna (1992 - 1999)

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 Publications and conferences

• Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants in 2,871 congenital heart disease probands. Jin SC, Homsy J, Zaidi S, Lu Q, Morton S, DePalma SR, Zeng X, Qi H, Chang W, Sierant MC, Hung WC, Haider S, Zhang J, Knight J, Bjornson RD, Castaldi C, Tikhonoa IR, Bilguvar K, Mane SM, Sanders SJ, Mital S, Russell MW, Gaynor JW, Giardini A, Porter GA Jr, Srivastava D, Lo CW, Shen Y, Watkins WS, Yandell M, Yost H, Tristani-Firouzi M, Newburger JW, Roberts AE, Kim R, Zhao H, Kaltman JR, Goldmuntz E, Chung WK, Seidman JG, Gelb BD, Seidman CE, Lifton RP, Brueckner M.
• Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants in 2,871 congenital heart disease probands. Nat Genet. 2017 Nov;49(11):1593-1601.
• De novo mutations in congenital heart disease with neurodevelopmental and other congenital anomalies. Science. 2015 Dec 4;350(6265):1262-6.
• Feasibility and safety of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in children with pulmonary hypertension. Cardiol Young. 2016 Aug;26(6):1144-50.
• Peak oxygen uptake, ventilatory efficiency and QRS-duration predict event free survival in patients late after surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot. Int J Cardiol. 2015 Oct 1;196:158-64.
• Cone reconstruction for Ebstein's anomaly: Patient outcomes, biventricular function, and cardiopulmonary exercise capacity. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Apr;149(4):1144-50.
• Does TCPC power loss really affect exercise capacity? Heart. 2015 Apr;101(7):575.
• Computational modeling of pathophysiologic responses to exercise in Fontan patients. Ann Biomed Eng. 2015 Jun;43(6):1335-47.
• Ventriculovascular interactions late after atrial and arterial repair of transposition of the great arteries. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Dec;148(6):2627-33.
• Asymptomatic adults with mild/moderate isolated native pulmonary valve stenosis are in need of treatment… but not the kind you are thinking of! Heart. 2014 Sep;100(17):1313-4.
• Computational models of aortic coarctation in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: considerations on validation of a detailed 3D model. Int J Artif Organs. 2014 May;37(5):371-81.

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 Prizes and awards

• Winner, Top Doctors Awards 2021 (2021)