Orlando P. Simonetti MS, PhD, FSCMR, FISMRM, FAHA

Orlando P. Simonetti, Ph.D. serves as Scientific Advisor of iHeart LLC. Dr. Simonetti serves as the Chief Executive Officer of EXCMR, Ltd. He serves as a Director of Cardiovascular MRI and CT Research at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Radiology, and Participatory Faculty in Biomedical Engineering. He has distinguished R&D, management, and academic credentials in biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering. He has published extensively in the scientific literature and has been awarded 7 patents on novel methods of cardiovascular MR image acquisition and image processing, several of which are in use by the major MRI vendors. His primary research interest is in developing new applications for cardiovascular MRI and CT. His areas of research include new image acquisition and processing techniques to characterize the effects of atherosclerotic disease and classify the components of arterial plaque, exercise MRI stress testing, and improved MRI methods of detecting pathological changes in myocardial tissue. Dr. Simonetti serves as a Member of the Editorial Board at the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and an Ad Hoc Reviewer for Scientific Journals Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Circulation, American Journal of Roentgenology, Investigative Radiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Heart. Dr. Simonetti is a Member of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and previously served as its Trustee. He is a member of the American Heart Association’s Cardiovascular Radiology Scientific Council and is also active in the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and its Cardiac MRI Study Group. He served as a Director of Siemens Cardiovascular MR R&D. Dr. Simonetti holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1992 and a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from The Ohio State University.