Dr. Giovanni Ferrari is Associate Professor of Surgical Sciences and Scientific Director of the Cardiothoracic Research Program at Columbia University. He has 13+ years of experience in the field of cell biology and cardiovascular medicine. After a postdoc at New York University he became faculty and group leader at University of Pennsylvania first as Assistant and later as Associate Professor. At UPenn he launched the Penn Cardiac Bioregistry for the division of cardiovascular surgery. In 2017 he relocated his program to Columbia University where he is directing the Columbia Biobank for Translational Science (CBTS), an applied human biobank and clinical database supporting translational and precision medicine initiatives. Dr. Ferrari maintain his role as principal investigator of the Penn Cardiac Bioregistry as Adjunct Associate Professor at UPenn. Heart valve and vascular cell physiology, cardiac biomechanics, and the brain-heart axis are Dr. Ferrari’s main research interests and the topic of the large majority of his publications and grants. His research is currently supported by multiple NIH R01s, AHA and other agencies. He serves on NIH and AHA study sections as well as of other international agencies and scientific journals.
