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Gina LaRocca, MD, MHSc, FSCMR

Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology; Director of Advance Cardiovascular Imaging
Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital

Gina LaRocca, MD, MHSc is the Director of Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging / Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI. She is the Fellowship Director of Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology at Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital. She is also Associate Professor of Radiology at Mount Sinai.
Dr. LaRocca completed a rigorous five year combined cardiology fellowship in pediatric and adult cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. The five years following, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. She developed the first Adult Congenital Heart Disease program at Weill Cornell.
In 2012, Dr. LaRocca joined the NHLBI of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a physician-scientist and an advanced cardiovascular imaging fellow in MRI and CTA.
During this time at the NIH, she was privileged to work with outstanding scientists and was involved in extensive research in novel cardiovascular biomarkers. She played a key role in the AGES-Reykjavik Study, a joint program between the Icelandic Heart Association and the NIH. Dr. LaRocca subsequently earned the prestigious NIH Intramural Research Curriculum Certificate with commendation.
Dr. LaRocca received her Master’s degree in Health Sciences in Clinical Research at Duke University. In May 2015 at Commencement exercises, she was recognized by the Dean of the School of Medicine for her Master’s thesis in cardiovascular biomarkers.

In 2017, Dr. LaRocca presented her NIH research entitled ‘Fibrosis as Measured by the Biomarker, TIMP1, Predicts Mortality in AGES-Reykjavik Study’ as a prestigious Late Breaking Clinical Trial with simultaneous publication at the European Society of Cardiology.

In 2019, Dr. LaRocca published in the world renown Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled “Multipotent Fetal-derived Cdx2 cells from Placenta Regenerate the Heart’.

Dr. LaRocca is also a specialist in sports cardiology.

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