Harold Litt MD, PhD, FAHA, FNASCI

Harold Litt MD, PhD, FAHA, FNASCI is Professor of Radiology and Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and Chief of the Cardiothoracic Imaging Division in the Department of Radiology. He was the principal investigator of the ACRIN-PA 4005 multicenter trial concerning the use of coronary CT for evaluation of emergency department chest pain patients and first author of the April 2012 NEJM publication of the trial results.

His other clinical and research interests include MR imaging of patients with implanted pacemakers and defibrillators (the program at Penn that he initiated has scanned over 7000 patients to date), MR imaging of scar in nonischemic heart disease, and mathematical modeling of cardiac structure and function. He has been a frequent invited lecturer at SCMR and served as chair of the SCMR membership committee, participated in the society’s strategic planning process, and the mentoring program since its inception.

More recently, he has focused on international outreach; he initiated the associate member category for SCMR and planned the first CMR course in South Africa. He also helped organize SCMR-sponsored courses in China, India, Peru, and Argentina. He currently serves as Deputy Editor for Cardiac MRI for the journal Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.