The EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology

Alessia Gimelli is the clinical lead of the Nuclear Cardiology Unit at Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy, from 2010. She is a cardiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. She has a Masters in Health Management, University of Pisa. Since 2013, she has been leading the quality assurance system for the nuclear medicine department of the FTGM. In October 2019 she won the ESC grant: Women Transforming Leadership Programme (WTLP) run by the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford (UK). She has deep experience of clinical research on cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular imaging and has contributed to several international high-profile projects. Dr Gimelli is the EACVI Treasures and member of the ESC Advocacy Committee (2020-2022) and was the EACVI Vice-President and the Chair of Nuclear Cardiology and CT section (2018-2020). Wael Jaber, Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic. Director of Cardiac Imaging CoreLab and Nuclear Cardiology. Trained in Multi-modality cardiac Imaging and published over 400 papers related to echocardiography, valvular heart disease, stress testing, nuclear perfusion and metabolic imaging as well as imaging in amyloid heart disease. Ronny Ralf Buechel, M.D. is the director of the cardiac imaging unit at the Department of Nuclear Imaging of the University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. He received his medical degree in 2006 and is board certified in nuclear medicine and cardiology. His clinical work and research extends to all fields of non-invasive and multimodality imaging, including SPECT, PET, CT, MRI and echocardiography. He is a professor at the University Zurich, Switzerland. Furthermore, he is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging and IMAGING, and, finally, Prof. Buechel is the chair of the EACVI Nuclear Certification and Accreditation Sub-Committee.