Professor Bucciarelli-Ducci received her undergraduate degree (2001) and postgraduate fellowship in cardiology (2005) from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
She then undertook courses and fellowships at Northwestern University in Chicago, University of Zurich, Harvard Medical School, Oxford University and more recently an MSc in Health Economics from LSE. She worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital as a senior CMR clinical and research fellow in 2006-2010 and in 2012 she was awarded a PhD in CMR from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College.
She was appointed a consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute and University of Bristol where she was headhunted in 2010 to build the CMR programme. In 2021 she then returned to Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals to lead the CMR clinical academic programme at Harefield.
She is associate professor at King College London, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging. Since 2019 she is also the CEO of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, the leading international association in the field of CMR with HQ in the USA. Previously, she held leadership positions in the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and European Society of Cardiology with whom she continues to have strong collaborations.
She is an invited expert by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of the European Union (on contrast agents) and by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of United Nations (on medical imaging without use of radiations). She is in the scientific advisory board of the National Heart Centre Singapore and Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Spain. She is the deputy editor of the European Heart Journal (one of the most important cardiology journals worldwide) for the cardiovascular imaging section.
She is recipient of numerous prestigious prizes/ awards, including the NHS national Clinical Excellence Award (bronze)(2021), winner Imperial College Alumni Emerging Leaders award (2022), winner Excellence in Education Outstanding Mid-Career Educator Award, European Society of Cardiology (2023), Finalist Wesleyan Prize, Medical Women Federation UK (2017), Winner William Harvey Prize, Italian Society of Cardiology (2011), Finalist Melvin Judkins Young Clinical Imaging Investigator Award, American Heart Association (2010), and others.
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