Laura Olivieri

Laura Jean Olivieri, MD is a board-certified Pediatric Cardiologist and the Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging at Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh. She is expert in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT.  She is also considered a leader in the field of 3-dimensional reconstruction of congenital heart  defects from 3D imaging, and in adapting MRI methods to babies and children. She is most interested in improving image acquisition using MRI and echocardiographic in 3D printing of heart models and has compiled a successful grant portfolio to that end. She also serves as Principal Investigator for an R01 to investigate application of cardiac MRI and Interventional Cardiac Magnetic Resonance on the care of pediatric heart transplant patients.  This is a 4.5 million dollar, 5-year contract aimed at using CMR to guide interventional cardiac catheterization procedures, using less sedation for diagnostic CMR procedures and to advance diagnostic CMR capabilities to use less invasive testing.  Finally, serves as Principal Investigator of the Pediatric Heart Network Center grant, which supports a clinical trials network for rare pediatric and congenital heart disease.