Breathlessness and your heart
- By One Heart Clinic
- May 27, 2024
Dr Laura Corsinovi is a Consultant Cardiologist with more than 20 years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart problems such as valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias. She has been in the NHS for the last 10 years treating patients in the North Hampshire Trust. She privately practises seeing both insured and self-funding patients.
Dr Corsinovi has a special interest in cardiac Imaging. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography (transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echocardiography). In her career has performed thousands of scans attaining the highest International Certifications (Level 3)* in all these cardiac modalities.
Dr Corsinovi is also a consultant in General Medicine, and she is a strong believer of holistic approach to patient healthcare comprising of doctor-patient trust and open communication. She works closely with the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield where she holds a Honorary Consultant Contract. She also works closely with Southampton University Hospital.
After a Bachelor's degree in Medicine, with honours, from the University of Genoa, Italy, she specialised in Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics from the University of Turin, Italy. She also completed a PhD degree in 2008 in Heart Failure.
Dr Corsinovi came to the UK in 2014 after working at Turin University Hospital in Italy. She gained further experience at Guy's and St Thomas Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital before becoming a consultant at her current NHS trust in 2016.
Dr Corsinovi is a respected name in medical research and has more than 20 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals and presented at National and International Conferences.
Dr Corsinovi is driven by providing excellent care for all her patients and contributing to developing the future generation of healthcare professionals. As such she busies herself in teaching junior doctors of different seniority and various healthcare professionals (i.e. nurses, cardiac physiologists, pharmacists). Before focusing on Medical Education, she held the role of Governance Lead of the Cardiology Department at Hampshire Hospitals. She is the Director of very successful Hands-on Echocardiography Courses, certified at national level by the British Society of Echocardiography. She is part of the national BSE assessors for the national certification of transthoracic Echocardiography. She is an advocate of a healthy and active lifestyle as a way to prevent diseases.
She lives with her husband who is an engineer working on the development of supercars. She is passionate about different sports (swimming and skiing in particular) and she loves cooking and baking. She promotes several charity events.
Level 3 international certifications in cardiac imaging are: European Society of Cardiology Certification for a transthoracic echocardiogram and transoesophageal echocardiogram; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Certification for cardiac MRI: Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography for CT coronary angiography. In the last years she has performed an average of 400 MRIs, 300 CTCAs and 350 advanced echocardiograms per year.
