Alicia Maceira

Cardiologist

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Experience

Specialist in Cardiovascular Imaging

With 30 years of professional experience in cardiology departments at national and international hospitals, she is highly specialised in Cardiovascular Imaging: Cardiac CT, Cardiac MRI, Transoesophageal Echocardiography, Stress Echocardiography and Contrast Echocardiography.

She obtained her Degree in Medicine from the University of Navarra in 1996.

She holds a PhD with Cum Laude distinction and was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award.
Full member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, as well as other international scientific societies; member of various national working groups and committees.

Author and co-author of more than 400 publications in journals, books, conferences and national and international communications.

Training and experience

2017 - Present
Medical Director
Ascires Group
2008 - Present
Coordinator of the Cardiac Imaging Unit (CMR, CCT, Echocardiography, Exercise Testing)

Clinical activity in non-invasive cardiac imaging and cardiology consultation

Ascires Group
2003-2008
Cardiologist

Specialised in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) and Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT)

ERESA
2003
Level III Accreditation (Expert) in Cardiac MRI and Certification in Transoesophageal Echocardiography

European Society of Cardiology
2003
Training in Cardiac CT and performance of Cardiac MRI, echocardiography and exercise testing studies.

Performance and reporting of 8,000 Cardiac MRI and more than 500 Cardiac CT studies
2003
Specific training in Cardiac MRI in:
- Congenital heart disease
- MR angiography
- Myocardial viability
- Cardiomyopathies
- Dobutamine stress CMR
- Myocardial perfusion
- Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
June 2022- April 2003
2003
Senior Clinical and Research fellow

CMR Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London

March 2002 – April 2003
2002
Dedication to transoesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography and contrast echocardiography
Performance and reporting of more than 800 stress echocardiography studies, mainly exercise stress echocardiography

University of Navarra Clinic

April 2000 – March 2002
2000
Training in Stress Echocardiography

Hammersmith Hospital, London
2000
Fellowship in the Stress and Transoesophageal Echocardiography Laboratory

Department of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London
1999
Cardiology Residency

Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Navarra Clinic

January 1995 – December 1999
1996
Degree in Medicine

University of Navarra

Final grade: Outstanding
1990
Basic Immunology Course at Harvard University

Awards and Memberships

Most important memberships
Member of the European Society of Cardiology Board for Accreditation in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance since 2014.
Member of the INCARDIO Committee (development of quality indicators in cardiology) of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2014).
Member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the European Society of Cardiology since 2014.
Member of the Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT Working Group of the Spanish Society of Cardiology since 2003. Coordinator of this Working Group since October 2016.
Member of the Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology since 2001.
Member of the Echocardiography Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology since July 2000.
Full Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology since 1996.
Member of the Working Groups on Ischaemic Heart Disease, Cardiac Transplantation, Arterial Hypertension, Graphic Records and Echocardiography, and Experimental Cardiology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
Awards
Award for the Best Presentation at the Congress of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. Bilbao, June 2000.
Schering Award, Spanish Society of Cardiology, October 2001.
Award from the Hypertension Section of the Spanish Society of Cardiology for the Best Presentation at the National Congress of Cardiovascular Diseases of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, 2003.
Award for the Best Presentation in Epidemiology, Hypertension and Risk Factors at the Annual Congress of the Valencian Society of Cardiology, 2006.
Award for the Best Article published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in 2008. Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Orlando, January 2009.
INSVACOR Award for the Best Presentation in Cardiovascular Prevention at the Congress of the Valencian Society of Cardiology, 2010
INSVACOR Award for the Best Presentation in Cardiovascular Prevention at the Congress of the Valencian Society of Cardiology, 2011.
INSVACOR Award for the Best Presentation in Cardiovascular Prevention at the Congress of the Valencian Society of Cardiology, 2012.
European Society of Hypertension Award for the Best Presentation in Metabolic Risk. Annual Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension and Vascular Protection, London, April 2012.