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Specialises in

• Cardiac CT/MRI

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Dr Laura Corsinovi is a Consultant Cardiologist in Winchester and Basingstoke with more than 20 years of experience in diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart problems such as valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias.
She has been in the NHS for the last 10 year treating patients in the North Hampshire Trust. She privately practises seeing both insured and self-funding patients.

Dr Corsinovi has a special interest in cardiac Imaging. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography (transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echocardiography). In her career has performed thousands of scans attaining the highest International Certifications (Level 3)* in all these cardiac modalities.
Dr Corsinovi is also a consultant in General Medicine and she is a strong believer of holistic approach to patient healthcare comprising doctor�patient trust and open communication.
She works closely with the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield where she holds a Honorary Consultant Contract. She works also closely to Southampton University Hospital.

After a Bachelor's degree in Medicine, with honours, from the University of Genoa, Italy, she specialized in Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics from the University of Turin, Italy. She also completed a PhD degree in 2008 on Heart Failure.

Dr Corsinovi came to the UK in 2014 after working at Turin University Hospital in Italy. She gained further experience at Guy's and St Thomas Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital before becoming a consultant at her current NHS trust in 2016.

Dr Corsinovi is a respected name in medical research and has more than 20 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals and presented at National and International Conferences.

Dr Corsinovi is driven by providing excellent care for all her patients and contributing to develop the future generation of healthcare professionals. As such she busies herself in teaching junior doctors of different seniority and various healthcare professionals (i.e nurses, cardiac physiologist, pharmacists). Before focusing on Medical Education, she held the role of Governance Lead of the Cardiology Department at Hampshire Hospitals. She is the Director of very successful Hands-on Echocardiography Courses, certified at national level by the British Society of Echocardiography. She is part of the national BSE assessors for the national certification of transthoracic Echocardiography.
She is an advocate of healthy and active lifestyle as a way to prevent diseases.

She lives with her husband who is engineer working on the development of super cars. She is passionate about different sports (swimming and skiing in particular) and she loves cooking and baking. She has been promoting several charity events.

Languages: English, Italian, French
* Level 3 international certifications in cardiac imaging are: European Society of Cardiology Certification for transthoracic echocardiogram and transoesophageal echocardiogram; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Certification for cardiac MRI: Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography for CT coronary angiography. In the last years she has performed an average of 400 MRIs, 300 CTCAs and 350 advanced echocardiograms per year.

Main Qualification summary
2001 MD,
2005 Certificate of Completion of Training, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
2008 PhD in Clinical Science, Heart Failure
2015 Certificate of Completion of Training, Cardiology
2018 & 2023 Transthoracic Echocardiography Certification, Level III, ESC (European Society of Cardiology)

Cardiac MRI certification, Level III, (Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance), November 2018

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Certification, Level III, (ESC European Society of Cardiology) October 2020

Cardiac CT Certification, Level III (Society of Cardiovascular Computed tomography), August 2022.

Areas of interest

Consultant in all aspect of general cardiology:
Valvular heart disease;
Cardiomyopathies;
Coronary artery disease;
Cardiac Imaging; echocardiogram; stress echocardiogram with Dobutamine or exercise; MRI; stress MRI; transoesophageal echocardiogram; cardiac CT:
Heart failure;
General medicine and geriatrics;
Medical research; education; teaching;

Medical secretaries

• Alexzandra Andrews
• 07434 636626
• corsinovisecretary@outlook.com