MissMaddalena Ardissino

Maddalena is a clinical and academic trainee who graduated from Imperial College London in 2019.

She holds an honorary clinical research fellowship at the National Heart and Lung Institute, and has worked in the Department of Surgery and Cancer during her Academic Foundation training.

Maddalena was an undergraduate student at Imperial College London. She graduated with Distinctions, and received a First Class Honours degree in the BSc in Neuroscience and Mental Health. During her BSc project, carried out at the Magill Research Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, she worked on developing a tool to automatically quantify heart rate variability in real-time from LiDCO monitors.

During her undergraduate years, she was awarded a scholarship for her achievements in rowing. She won European University Rowing Championships in 2017 for Imperial College, and was selected to represent Italy at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2016.

Maddalena was an active member of the research community at Imperial College during her undergraduate study and continued to participate during her Academic Foundation post. She was particularly interested in the application of time varying survival models to retrospective databases to quantify the long-term effect of exposures to time-dependent cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, or complex risk factors, such as genetic variants. Her research work currently focuses on using genetic epidemiology to understand determinants of cardiovascular risk in women, and how maternal cardiovascular health impacts outcomes of pregnancy.

Maddalena supervises BSc students in the BSc Critical Care and Anaesthesia and Cardiovascular Sciences, starting from the academic year 2020-21. She also regularly delivers lectures to the Cardiology medical students at the Royal Brompton Hospital.