Dr. Victoria Delgado is currently the head of the cardiovascular imaging department of the Heart Institute at the University Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol and scientific director of the Centre of Comparative Medicine and Bioimaging in Badalona, Spain. She graduated in medical school at the University of Barcelona (Spain), accomplished her training in Cardiology at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona (Spain) and followed a 3-year fellowship at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) where she was appointed as cardiologist with expertise on multimodality imaging from 2010 till 2021. She obtained her PhD degree cum laude in 2010 at the Leiden University with the thesis entitled Novel Cardiac Imaging Technologies: Implications in Clinical Decision Making.

She has more than 800 per-reviewed publications, and an H-factor of 91. She has contributed to more than 20 textbooks, including the worldwide recognized landmark book Hurst’s The Heart, 15th edition. She has been co-promotor of 17 PhD students and currently supervises 6 PhD fellows.

She has been Associate Editor of the Journal of American Society of Echocardiography, and she is currently Senior Editor of Circulation. She has been very much involved at the European Society of Cardiology, in several task force of guidelines, in the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, European Observational Registry Programme and ESC Congress programme committee. She has been councilor of the ESC Board and is currently the President-elect of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.