Laura Cooper Olivieri
Laura Cooper Olivieri is an American cardiologist, specializing in pediatrics, and noted for her expertise in echocardiography, or ultrasound of the heart.
Education[edit]
Laura graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1999 with a BS in Biomedical Engineering, followed by a MD in 2003 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.[1]
Career[edit]
Olivieri gained experience in clinical medicine, first at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and later as a resident, then fellow and faculty member at Brown University's Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.[2]
Olivieri is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is also a cardiologist at Children's National Medical Center.[1] In her research and work, Olivieri uses life-size 3D-printed models of children's hearts to analyze the hearts' malformations in order to develop treatment plans with cardiac surgeons.[2] Surgeons can use the models to do a dry run before their surgeries. Hearts are created using two-dimensional data from patients' computerized tomography or ultrasound scans.[3]
Olivieri is part of a group of doctors and engineers working to develop accurate 3D models of real patients' hearts at the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. This project began in 2012, when Dr. Dilip Nath, assistant professor of congenital heart surgery, won a research grant from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education to work on developing a curriculum for congenital cardiac surgery education.[2]
Selected publications[edit]
Groves, Daniel W.; Olivieri, Laura J.; et al. (February 2017), "Feasibility of low radiation dose retrospectively-gated cardiac CT for functional analysis in adult congenital heart disease", International Journal of Cardiology, 228, pp. 180–183, doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.11.108
Costello, John P.; Olivieri, Laura J.; et al. (June 23, 2014), "Utilizing Three-Dimensional Printing Technology to Assess the Feasibility of High-Fidelity Synthetic Ventricular Septal Defect Models for Simulation in Medical Education", World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, 5 (3), pp. 421–426, doi:10.1177/2150135114528721
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Laura Olivieri, M.D. | Children's National". Children's National. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Crawford, Amy (2013). "A Heart Illuminated" (PDF). WPI Journal: The Alumni Magazine of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- ↑ Coghlan, Andy. "3D printer shows surgeons secrets of strange hearts". New Scientist. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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